Foresight

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Edited by Lawrence W. Sherman, Darwin College, Cambridge, David Allan Feller, Darwin College, Cambridge

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: October 2016
Print publication year:: 2016
Online ISBN:: 9781316225301
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316225301

Series:: Darwin College Lectures (26)
Subjects:: Popular Science, General Science

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How do attempts to foresee the future actually change it? For thousands of years, humans have called upon foresight to shape their own actions in order to adapt and survive; as Charles Darwin revealed in his theory of natural selection, the capacity to do just that is key to the origin of species. The uses of foresight, however, can also be applied to help us further our understanding across a variety of realms in everything from warfare, journalism and music, to ancient civilizations, space weather and science. In a thought-provoking new addition to the Darwin College Lecture Series, eight distinguished authors each present an essay from their area of expertise devoted to the theme of 'foresight'. This provocative read reveals foresight as a process that can be identified across all areas of human endeavour, an art which can not only predict the future, but make it anything but inevitable.

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ForesightContributorsGeoffrey Lloyd, Bridget Kendall, Robert J. Sawyer, Hasok Chang, Nicholas Cook, Jim Wild, Terrie E. Moffitt and Francesca Rochberg.
pp i-i

The Darwin College Lectures - Series page
pp ii-iv

Foresight - Title page
pp v-v

Copyright page
pp vi-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

Figures
pp viii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-xii

Introduction: The Foresight Dialectic
pp 1-9

1 - Foresight in Ancient Civilisations
pp 10-31

2 - Foresight in Journalism
pp 32-57

3 - Foresight and Fiction
pp 58-81

4 - Foresight in Scientific Method
pp 82-100

5 - Music and Foresight
pp 101-122

6 - Foreseeing Space Weather
pp 123-136

7 - How Individuals’ Future Orientation Makes a Difference to Their Society: Self-control in a Four-decade Study of 1000 Children
pp 137-156

8 - Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia
pp 157-175

Index
pp 176-179

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