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Problems of Contemporary World Futurology (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Problems of Contemporary World Futurology (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Humankind has always striven to catch a glimpse of the future.
Egyptian priests, Babylonian astrologers, Greek oracles and
medieval magicians stared at the sky and tried to foresee the
coming catastrophes, relying on certain distributions of the stars.
Contemporary fantasists construct models of the future through the
pages of their novels and astonish readers with unbelievable
pictures of a technocratic society where the very human personality
has transformed under the influence of technological advance.
However, most of all the previous attempts to foresee the future
has remained in the framework of banal superstition or ordinary
creative writing. At the same time, the principal question does not
cease to be of current interest. Is scientific forecasting of the
near and distant future possible? The authors of this book are
convinced that it is. On the basis of rigorous methodology,
mathematicians, physicians, philosophers and historians demonstrate
how the world will look in coming decades and centuries and try to
find out if the future can be determined. Along with general
philosophical analysis, mathematical modeling is used in order to
give the reader a clear and objective vision of the future. The
book will be useful for everyone who takes care of his own destiny
and the destiny of the next generations.
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