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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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- 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
- 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