- Additional Authors
- Series Statement
- Darwin college lectures
- Uniform Title
- Foresight (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Foresight in ancient civilisations / Geoffrey Lloyd -- Foresight in journalism / Bridget Kendall -- Foresight and fiction / Robert Sawyer -- Foresight in scientific method / Hasok Chang -- Foresight in music / Nicholas Cook -- Foreseeing in space weather / Jim Wild -- Foresight and self-control / Terrie Moffitt -- Foresight in ancient Mesopotamia / Francesca Rochberg.
- LCCN
- 2016023668
- OCLC
- ssj0001733351
- Title
Foresight [electronic resource] / edited by Lawrence W. Sherman and David Allan Feller.
- Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Description
1 online resource (xi, 179 pages) : illustrations.
- Series
Darwin college lectures
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Summary
"The idea of foresight is as old as recorded societies, as controversial as climate change, as interesting as a murder mystery, and as useful as an umbrella. It is a siren tempting journalists to dash themselves on the rocks of prediction, a competitive sport in which winners may claim high fees for their success-or even failure. Yet the greatest value of foresight is to change our futures, not just to predict them. Foresight embraces more than disengaged claims about what will happen; it can also engage lines of action in which foresight itself causes what happens next-either to confirm its prediction or avoid it"-- Provided by publisher.
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- Added Author
Sherman, Lawrence W.
Feller, David Allan.