Future studies and counterfactual analysis : seeds of the future /
In this volume, the authors contribute to futures research by placing the counterfactual question in the future tense. They explore the possible outcomes of future, and consider how future decisions are turning points that may produce different global outcomes. This book focuses on a dozen or so int...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Cham, Switzerland : |
Publication Dates: | [2019] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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In this volume, the authors contribute to futures research by placing the counterfactual question in the future tense. They explore the possible outcomes of future, and consider how future decisions are turning points that may produce different global outcomes. This book focuses on a dozen or so intractable issues that span politics, religion, and technology, each addressed in individual chapters. Until now, most scenarios written by futurists have been built on cause and effect narratives or depended on numerical models derived from historical relationships. In contrast, many of the scenarios written for this book are point descriptions of future discontinuities, a form allows more thought-provoking presentations. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that counterfactual thinking and point scenarios of discontinuities are new, groundbreaking tools for futurists.-- |
Carrier Form: | xii, 194 pages ; 22 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9783030184360 3030184366 |
Index Number: | CB161 |
CLC: | G303 |
Call Number: | G303/G665 |