What about the Future?: New Perspectives on Planning, Forecasting and Complexity

by Fred Phillips

Book Overview

What Do We Mean by "the Future"?.- Risk and Uncertainty.- Values and the Future.- Why Do We Want to Know the Future?.- Prediction and Planning.- Seeing the Future: Ideas from Philosophy, Linguistics, and Sociology.- Complexity and the Future.- Analytics and the Future.- Imagination and the Future.- Expertise and the Future.- The Present and the Future.- Policy and the Future.- Attitudes, Expectations, and the Future.- The Future of the Future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030261670
• ISBN13: 9783030261672
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"