What is the future? / John Urry.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge : Polity, 2018Description: 226 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780745696546 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Future, The | Forecasting | Civilization -- Forecasting | Sociology | Society | SocietyDDC classification: 303.4'9 Summary: Thinking about the future has become essential. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs, and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what exactly is the future? It remains a mystery perhaps the greatest mystery of all since futures are unpredictable, uncertain and often unknowable, the outcome of many known and unknown unknowns. The future can rarely be simply extrapolated from the present. John Urry captures many efforts that have been made to anticipate, visualise, elaborate and perform the future.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thinking about the future has become essential. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs, and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what exactly is the future? It remains a mystery perhaps the greatest mystery of all since futures are unpredictable, uncertain and often unknowable, the outcome of many known and unknown unknowns. The future can rarely be simply extrapolated from the present. John Urry captures many efforts that have been made to anticipate, visualise, elaborate and perform the future.
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