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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... science fiction and future fantasy literature almost always present a single story of future events . Probably the farthest vistas of all have been sketched by Olaf Stapledon's novels ( 1930 and 1937 ) , although Darwin ( 1983 ) looked ...
... science fiction and future fantasy literature almost always present a single story of future events . Probably the farthest vistas of all have been sketched by Olaf Stapledon's novels ( 1930 and 1937 ) , although Darwin ( 1983 ) looked ...
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... science fiction story about a civilization that had fairly good knowledge about the steps needed to avoid catastrophe and to achieve a reasonably positive future but who nonetheless failed to take those steps promptly ? How can we get ...
... science fiction story about a civilization that had fairly good knowledge about the steps needed to avoid catastrophe and to achieve a reasonably positive future but who nonetheless failed to take those steps promptly ? How can we get ...
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... science fiction images . Some 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 ...
... science fiction images . Some 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 ...
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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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