Book contents
- ForesightContributorsGeoffrey Lloyd, Bridget Kendall, Robert J. Sawyer, Hasok Chang, Nicholas Cook, Jim Wild, Terrie E. Moffitt and Francesca Rochberg.
- The Darwin College Lectures
- Foresight
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: The Foresight Dialectic
- 1 Foresight in Ancient Civilisations
- 2 Foresight in Journalism
- 3 Foresight and Fiction
- 4 Foresight in Scientific Method
- 5 Music and Foresight
- 6 Foreseeing Space Weather
- 7 How Individuals’ Future Orientation Makes a Difference to Their Society: Self-control in a Four-decade Study of 1000 Children
- 8 Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia
- Index
3 - Foresight and Fiction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2016
- ForesightContributorsGeoffrey Lloyd, Bridget Kendall, Robert J. Sawyer, Hasok Chang, Nicholas Cook, Jim Wild, Terrie E. Moffitt and Francesca Rochberg.
- The Darwin College Lectures
- Foresight
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: The Foresight Dialectic
- 1 Foresight in Ancient Civilisations
- 2 Foresight in Journalism
- 3 Foresight and Fiction
- 4 Foresight in Scientific Method
- 5 Music and Foresight
- 6 Foreseeing Space Weather
- 7 How Individuals’ Future Orientation Makes a Difference to Their Society: Self-control in a Four-decade Study of 1000 Children
- 8 Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Foresight , pp. 58 - 81Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016