Predicting the Future

Name: Predicting the Future
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ISBN: 9780521619745

ISBN-10: 0521619742

ISBN-13: 9780521619745

Edition: 2005

Authors: Leo Howe, Alan Wain

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Whether there is a future to predict is not a question many people care to think about too deeply, though the process of predicting the future has itself a history. We did not always predict from the same assumptions as we do now, or for the same reasons. Today, on the basis of empirical observation and scientific theory, accredited experts and specialists forecast the economy, the social consequences of medical innovation and even what will happen to the universe in billions of years time. In the past soothsayers, priests, oracles and comets foretold the future on the basis of religious ideology and traditional authority. In a remarkable series of thought-provoking essays the authors…

Book details

List price: $64.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction: predicting the future




The future of the universe




Chaos




Comets and the world's end




Predicting the economy




The medical frontier




Divine providence in late antiquity




Buddist prediction: how open is the future?




The last judgement



Notes on contributors


Acknowledgements


Index