| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 321 pages ; 21 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Rev. translation published in 1973 under title: Kursbuch ins dritte Jahrtausend. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-313) and index. |
| Contents |
Eco-catastrophe! / Paul Ehrlich -- The future: prefigurative cultures and unknown children / Margaret Mead -- The plastic Parthenon / John McHale -- Automation: learning a living / Marshall McLuhan -- Evolution and revolution in the west / Robert Jungk -- Towards a Democratic futurism / Arthur I. Waskow -- The strategy of social futurism / Alvin Toffler -- Hazards of prophecy / Arthur C. Clarke -- Prospects of technological progress / Olaf Helmer -- The use of scenarios / Herman Kahn, Anthony J. Wiener -- The current methods of futures research / Theodore J. Gordon -- Can we transform into a post-industrial society? / M.S. Iyengar -- Bourgeois futurology and the future of mankind / I. Bestuzhev-Lada -- For a science of man / Erich Jantsch -- The economics of the coming spaceship Earth / Kenneth E. Boulding -- The information-centered society / Yujiro Hayashi -- The future as present expectation / Daniel Bell -- Futurology--the new science of probability? / Ossip Flechtheim -- On the nature of the future / John Wren-Lewis -- Technology and the human environment / R. Buckminster Fuller. |
| Subject |
Forecasting.
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Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
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Civilization, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00863073
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Forecasting. (OCoLC)fst00931721
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Modern civilization -- 1950-
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1950
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| Added Author |
Toffler, Alvin, compiler.
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| ISBN |
0394317130 |
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9780394317137 |
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0075537133 |
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9780075537137 |
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