Problems of contemporary world futurology
Humankind has always striven to catch a glimpse of the future. Egyptian priests, Babylonian astrologers, Greek oracles and medieval magicians stared at the sky and tried to foresee the coming catastrophes, relying on certain distributions of the stars. Co.
| Други автори: | Yakunin, Vladimir I., 1948- |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars,
2011.
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Problems of contemporary world futurology. |
Съдържание:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; ON THE EXISTENCE AND KNOWABILITY OF THE FUTURE; THE ONTOLOGY OF THE FUTURE; THE PRESENT IN THE FUTURE; THE MEANING OF HISTORY AS A TRIAL FOR HUMANITY; CHAPTER TWO; MATHEMATIC MODELS FOR THE LONGTERM FORECASTING OF DEMOGRAPHIC, ECONOMIC, ECO-ENERGY DEVELOPMENTOF THE WORLD; PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF RUSSIA'S DEVELOPMENT MODEL IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DYNAMICS OF THE WORLD-SYSTEM; GLOBAL CHALLENGES, THE PROPHETIC TRADITION AND SCIENCE; SCIENCE FICTION AS A PARTICULAR METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF HUMAN CIVILISATION.
- SALTATION IN THE EVOLUTION AND DESTINY OF SPECIES HOMO SAPIENS LCHAPTER THREE; ON SOME GLOBAL TENDENCIES IN WORLD DEVELOPMENT; ON THE POST-CRISIS WORLD; CIVILISATION GENESIS IN GLOBAL HISTORICAL TIME; THE PROSPECTS FOR WORLD DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 21ST CENTURY; RUSSIA AND THE WORLD; A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MEGATRENDS IN GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT (WAVES AND PERIODS IN 2000, 2020 AND 2040); ON THE INEVITABILITY OF CHANGE OF THE MODERN RUSSIAN SOCIO-ECONOMIC MODEL; THE PRE- AND POST-HISTORY OF HUMANKIND; THE GLOBAL WORLD.