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Future Studies and Counterfactual Analysis: Seeds of the Future

By Theodore J. Gordon , Mariana Todorova

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing; Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2019
ISBN
978-3-030-18436-0;978-3-030-18437-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2219459 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
XII, 194\196
Time added
2019-09-18 12:18:56
Social Sciences; Science and Technology Studies; I

Description

In this volume, the authors contribute to futures research by placing the counterfactual question in the future tense. They explore the possible outcomes of future, and consider how future decisions are turning points that may produce different global outcomes. This book focuses on a dozen or so intractable issues that span politics, religion, and technology, each addressed in individual chapters. Until now, most scenarios written by futurists have been built on cause and effect narratives or depended on numerical models derived from historical relationships. In contrast, many of the scenarios written for this book are point descriptions of future discontinuities, a form allows more thought-provoking presentations. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that counterfactual thinking and point scenarios of discontinuities are new, groundbreaking tools for futurists. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Introduction (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 1-9 True or False (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 11-31 Proliferation: Doomsday or Politics? (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 33-50 The Bounds of Humanity (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 51-59 The Beginning and Hereafter (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 61-68 Immortality (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 69-81 Religion (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 83-89 Decision Making: The Talent for Decisions (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 91-106 Dealing with Bio-terrorism (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 107-117 Our Computer Overlords (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 119-126 What Constitutes Progress? (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 127-140 Political Chaos (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 141-151 The Perfect Human (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 153-159 Conclusions (Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova)....Pages 161-167 Back Matter ....Pages 169-194

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