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Foresight

Title
Foresight / edited by Lawrence W. Sherman and David Allan Feller.
Publication
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Sherman, Lawrence W.
  • Feller, David Allan
Description
xi, 179 pages : illustrations, map; 26 cm
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"--
Series Statement
The Darwin college lectures ; 27
Uniform Title
Darwin College lectures ; 27.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foresight in ancient civilisations / Geoffrey Lloyd -- Foresight in journalism / Bridget Kendall -- Foresight and fiction / Robert Sawyer -- Foresight in scientific method / Hasok Chang -- Foresight in music / Nicholas Cook -- Foreseeing in space weather / Jim Wild -- Foresight and self-control / Terrie Moffitt -- Foresight in ancient Mesopotamia / Francesca Rochberg.
Call Number
JFF 16-2125
ISBN
  • 9781107512368
  • 1107512360
LCCN
  • 2016023668
  • 40026578667
OCLC
942707100
Title
Foresight / edited by Lawrence W. Sherman and David Allan Feller.
Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The Darwin college lectures ; 27
Darwin College lectures ; 27.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Sherman, Lawrence W., editor.
Feller, David Allan, editor.
Other Standard Identifier
40026578667
Research Call Number
JFF 16-2125
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