1984 and BeyondOffers a collection of predictions concerning the world of 2004 from a variety of distinquished futurists, scientists, and fiction writers, including Herman Kahn, Arthur C. Clarke, and Freeman Dyson. |
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... industrialised countries . She sprayed her subject with forecasts that seemed damp and depressing at the time . On inspection , they turn out to have been brilliantly accurate . She began by saying that the pattern of social life would ...
... industrialised countries . She sprayed her subject with forecasts that seemed damp and depressing at the time . On inspection , they turn out to have been brilliantly accurate . She began by saying that the pattern of social life would ...
Page 115
... industrialised nations , which may already be roughly stable at 1.2 billion . You can do the sums better than I , with variable assumptions about life expectancy , death rate and birth rate . But there is little point in splitting hairs ...
... industrialised nations , which may already be roughly stable at 1.2 billion . You can do the sums better than I , with variable assumptions about life expectancy , death rate and birth rate . But there is little point in splitting hairs ...
Page 141
... industrialised economics . A You're right . And people's jobs are the chief markers specifying , to themselves and others , who they are and where they fit into society . Job - killing tears out the heart of the social system of ...
... industrialised economics . A You're right . And people's jobs are the chief markers specifying , to themselves and others , who they are and where they fit into society . Job - killing tears out the heart of the social system of ...
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