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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... economic benefit . For much of modern history , future? has been associated with science , prediction , and control . Futurists have devised many forms of futureZ . That is , there are many methods for thinking about and representing ...
... economic benefit . For much of modern history , future? has been associated with science , prediction , and control . Futurists have devised many forms of futureZ . That is , there are many methods for thinking about and representing ...
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... economics , and mathematics for analogies for thinking about entities that are " real " only in our minds ( economists , for example , imagine a perfect market , mathematicians reason about " imaginary numbers " and negative numbers ...
... economics , and mathematics for analogies for thinking about entities that are " real " only in our minds ( economists , for example , imagine a perfect market , mathematicians reason about " imaginary numbers " and negative numbers ...
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... Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 ( New York : Random House , 1987 ) ; and Francis Fukuyama , The End of History and the Last Man ( New York : Free Press , 1992 ) . 4. See , for example , Michael Riddiss ...
... Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 ( New York : Random House , 1987 ) ; and Francis Fukuyama , The End of History and the Last Man ( New York : Free Press , 1992 ) . 4. See , for example , Michael Riddiss ...
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History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future David J. Staley Limited preview - 2010 |
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