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. |
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... intelligent life from some other part of this 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 ...
... intelligent life from some other part of this 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 ...
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... intelligent species have evolved in our 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 ...
... intelligent species have evolved in our 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 ...
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... intelligent beings in our universe could turn out to be silicon - based entities or supercomputers . It may not be pure fiction to imagine intelligent life evolving even further , as it does in 2010 by Arthur C. Clarke ( 1982 ) . One ...
... intelligent beings in our universe could turn out to be silicon - based entities or supercomputers . It may not be pure fiction to imagine intelligent life evolving even further , as it does in 2010 by Arthur C. Clarke ( 1982 ) . One ...
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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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