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Foresight / edited by Lawrence W. Sherman and David Allan Feller.

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; 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.
Subject
  • Forecasting
  • Prediction (Psychology)
  • SCIENCE > General
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9781107512368
  • 1107512360
LCCN
^^2016023668
OCLC
942707100
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library