Foresight
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Foresight

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Foresight

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How do attempts to foresee the future actually change it? For thousands of years, humans have called upon foresight to shape their own actions in order to adapt and survive; as Charles Darwin revealed in his theory of natural selection, the capacity to do just that is key to the origin of species. The uses of foresight, however, can also be applied to help us further our understanding across a variety of realms in everything from warfare, journalism and music, to ancient civilizations, space weather and science. In a thought-provoking new addition to the Darwin College Lecture Series, eight distinguished authors each present an essay from their area of expertise devoted to the theme of 'foresight'. This provocative read reveals foresight as a process that can be identified across all areas of human endeavour, an art which can not only predict the future, but make it anything but inevitable.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781316786666
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Science General
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Notes on Contributors
  9. Introduction: The Foresight Dialectic
  10. 1 Foresight in Ancient Civilisations
  11. 2 Foresight in Journalism
  12. 3 Foresight and Fiction
  13. 4 Foresight in Scientific Method
  14. 5 Music and Foresight
  15. 6 Foreseeing Space Weather
  16. 7 How Individuals’ Future Orientation Makes a Difference to Their Society: Self-control in a Four-decade Study of 1000 Children
  17. 8 Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia
  18. Index