In the Presence of the Future : Mapping the Roads to Tomorrow.
Title:
In the Presence of the Future : Mapping the Roads to Tomorrow.
Author:
Schmid, Georg.
ISBN:
9783653014273
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (489 pages)
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Part A - Auxiliaries -- Part B - The Mains -- Part C - Summaries and Prognoses -- I - The Trouble with History -- II - Counterfactuals and Alternate History:Reasoning about Their Realness -- III - Trial Runs for the Future History Run:The Competition between Science Fiction, Forecasting, and Hope -- IV - The Curse of Large Numbersor The Demography of Despair -- V - Lost in the Economic Mazeor The Desperate Search for Prosperity -- VI - Technology as Applied Science, Engineering,and the Constraints of User Ideologies -- VII - Culture as a Stabilizing Treasureor The Court of All Vanities -- VIII - Religion: The Headlong March into Calamity -- IX - Polity, Politics, Policies:The Challenge of Societal Governance -- X - The Humbug of Guessing Games:Death Traps, Missed Opportunities, Last Chances -- XI - Afterthoughts: In the Year 25 25.
Abstract:
The divide between the techno-scientific and the humanities paradigm has critically endangered general comprehension. The prolegomena to a unified field theory of futurology presented here attempt to reconcile these epistemological models by meticulously investigating a gamut of supposedly separate areas, from the social use of art or religion via demographic, economic and technological data to moral and political philosophy. This highly panoramatic and integrative inspection of problems humankind will be facing in the near and foreseeable future yields novel perspectives and a superior grasp of beneficial social practice.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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