Crucial Questions about the FutureUniversity Press of America, 1991 - 133 síður Crucial Questions About the Future presents readers concerned about the long-range future and their place in it with a series of tough but necessary questions and, refreshingly, offers no pat answers. Instead, what is offered is a structured and reason-bound exploration of the complexities of modern life with which the reader, or the future-studies inclined academic, can provide his own answers to these eternal and critical questions. Contents: The Future of Human Civilization; What Is Most Important of All?; Why Do We Act In Ways That Hurt Our Future?; What Will Our Actual Future Turn Out To Be?; How Can We Achieve a Satisfactory Future?; Preventing the Worst Catastrophes; Intelligent Life in the Universe: What Role Will It Play In Our Future?; From Which Aspects of Reality Can We Gain Meaning and Purpose?; How Can Each Person Contribute? |
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... galaxy . The fundamental importance of intelligent life in the universe can be confirmed by some of the thought - provoking mental exercises in chapter 2 . For instance , imagine that you are in some distant galaxy , viewing our entire ...
... galaxy . The fundamental importance of intelligent life in the universe can be confirmed by some of the thought - provoking mental exercises in chapter 2 . For instance , imagine that you are in some distant galaxy , viewing our entire ...
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... galaxy somewhere beyond our solar system . 1. The number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy ( about 400,000,000,000 ) is so large that it is almost beyond our imagination . A fair number of these stars probably have planets that are ...
... galaxy somewhere beyond our solar system . 1. The number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy ( about 400,000,000,000 ) is so large that it is almost beyond our imagination . A fair number of these stars probably have planets that are ...
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... galaxy are much older than our sun , many of them millions of years older . It follows , then , that any civilizations on planets revolving around those stars likely arose much earlier than our own civilization did . Second , it seems ...
... galaxy are much older than our sun , many of them millions of years older . It follows , then , that any civilizations on planets revolving around those stars likely arose much earlier than our own civilization did . Second , it seems ...
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What Is Most Important of All? | 7 |
Why Do We Act in Ways That Hurt Our Future? | 25 |
How Can Each Person Contribute? | 111 |
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