Foresight /
"The idea of foresight is as old as recorded societies, as controversial as climate change, as interesting as a murder mystery, and as useful as an umbrella. It is a siren tempting journalists to dash themselves on the rocks of prediction, a competitive sport in which winners may claim high fee...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Darwin College lectures ;
27. |
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| Summary: | "The idea of foresight is as old as recorded societies, as controversial as climate change, as interesting as a murder mystery, and as useful as an umbrella. It is a siren tempting journalists to dash themselves on the rocks of prediction, a competitive sport in which winners may claim high fees for their success-or even failure. Yet the greatest value of foresight is to change our futures, not just to predict them. Foresight embraces more than disengaged claims about what will happen; it can also engage lines of action in which foresight itself causes what happens next-either to confirm its prediction or avoid it"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 179 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107512368 1107512360 |