History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the FutureThe book reexamines this long held belief, and argues that the historical method is an excellent way to think about and represent the future. At the same time, the book asserts that futurists should not view the future as a scientist might--aiming for predictions and certainties--but rather should view the future in the same way that an historian views the past. |
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... create a ( tex- tual ) object that can stand in its place . In the same way , it can be said that we can write a " history of the future " in order to compensate for the absence of the future itself ; that we need to create ...
... create a ( tex- tual ) object that can stand in its place . In the same way , it can be said that we can write a " history of the future " in order to compensate for the absence of the future itself ; that we need to create ...
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... create narrations of the future . Historians and philosophers of history — if they have addressed it at all— have traditionally defined " the future " as a problem for the speculative phi- losophy of history . Historians such as Vico ...
... create narrations of the future . Historians and philosophers of history — if they have addressed it at all— have traditionally defined " the future " as a problem for the speculative phi- losophy of history . Historians such as Vico ...
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... creating history2 have consequences for how his- toryl is represented and understood . We can never perceive or understand historyl in a totally unmediated fashion , for the linguistic models of history2 shape our understanding of the ...
... creating history2 have consequences for how his- toryl is represented and understood . We can never perceive or understand historyl in a totally unmediated fashion , for the linguistic models of history2 shape our understanding of the ...
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... create fictions , and should therefore glory in any kind of interpretation they wish . ) I prefer to see the question not in terms of " truth " but in terms of " utility . " That is , a historyZ that corresponds as closely to historyl ...
... create fictions , and should therefore glory in any kind of interpretation they wish . ) I prefer to see the question not in terms of " truth " but in terms of " utility . " That is , a historyZ that corresponds as closely to historyl ...
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... create predictions to aid in public - policy formation . Futurists today , like Faith Popcorn or John Naisbitt , are more likely to come out of corporate settings or to sell their services to busi- ness interests then they are to work ...
... create predictions to aid in public - policy formation . Futurists today , like Faith Popcorn or John Naisbitt , are more likely to come out of corporate settings or to sell their services to busi- ness interests then they are to work ...
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History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future David J. Staley Limited preview - 2010 |
History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future David J. Staley Limited preview - 2006 |
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