AuthorCocks, K. D. (Kenneth Douglas)
TitleDeep futures [electronic resource] : our prospects for survival / Doug Cocks
Imprint Kensington, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press, 2003
Connect tohttp://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=87579
Descript xvii, 332 p. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Part 1: Futures we have glimpsed -- Ch. 1. A difficult century -- Ch. 2. Deep futures -- Part 2: Understanding the task -- Ch. 3. What is the question? -- Ch. 4. Understanding how societies change over time -- Part 3: Taking charge -- Ch. 5. A strategy for managing the deep future -- Ch. 6. Guidelines I: nursing the world through endless change -- Ch. 7. Guidelines II: learning forever -- Ch. 8. Guidelines III: working on perennial issues -- Ch. 9. Stories to live by -- App. Basic properties of dissipative (energy-degrading) systems


SUBJECT

  1. Social evolution
  2. Forecasting
  3. Twenty-first century -- Forecasts
  4. Electronic books.