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Deep futures : our prospects for survival / Doug Cocks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cocks, K. D. (Kenneth Douglas)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forecasting.
- Social prediction.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press ; Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What is the future of humanity? Will we survive this century and, if we do, how "well" will we survive into the next millennium? This text addresses these questions, looking at what has been forseen by serious future-gazers and scientists for the prospects of the human and post-human lineage.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface and Introduction
- Futures We Have Glimpsed
- 21C: A Difficult Century
- Deep Futures
- Understanding the Task
- What is the Question?
- Understanding How Societies Change Over Time
- Taking Charge
- A Strategy for Managing The Deep Future
- Guidelines I: Nursing The World Through Endless Change
- Guidelines II: Learning Forever
- Guidelines III: Working on Perennial Isssues
- Stories To Live By
- Basic properties of Dissipative (Energy-Degrading) Systems
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- "A UNSW Press book"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [304]-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-7175-2
- OCLC:
- 243614273
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