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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... present or past , the exercise becomes even more difficult . " Who can quote accurate odds ? Bookmaking is no less hazardous than bookkeeping , when the destiny of all mankind is at stake " ( p . 352 ) . Scholarly and scientific ...
... present or past , the exercise becomes even more difficult . " Who can quote accurate odds ? Bookmaking is no less hazardous than bookkeeping , when the destiny of all mankind is at stake " ( p . 352 ) . Scholarly and scientific ...
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... present one particular picture of the future ; excellent examples are the books by Brown , Bonner , and Weir ( 1957 ) , Beckwith ( 1967 ) , Berry ( 1974 ) , Kahn , Brown , and Martel ( 1976 ) , O'Neill ( 1981 ) , Stableford and Langford ...
... present one particular picture of the future ; excellent examples are the books by Brown , Bonner , and Weir ( 1957 ) , Beckwith ( 1967 ) , Berry ( 1974 ) , Kahn , Brown , and Martel ( 1976 ) , O'Neill ( 1981 ) , Stableford and Langford ...
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... present must be our own civilization . At the same time , however , we should continue and enlarge our present efforts to make successful contact with intelligent life from some other part of this galaxy . The fundamental importance of ...
... present must be our own civilization . At the same time , however , we should continue and enlarge our present efforts to make successful contact with intelligent life from some other part of this galaxy . The fundamental importance of ...
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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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