Knowing our future
Subtitle: the startling case for futurology
By: Michael Lee
Publisher: Infinite Ideas Limited
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781906821982
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Forecasting
Description: The received conventional wisdom within the global futurist community is that the future is unknowable. Knowing our future outlines a full theory of how knowable the future really is. Using case studies of prescient predictions of the social future from the time of the French Revolution through to the present Michael Lee argues that there are sound theoretical grounds for establishing a science of the future and accurately predicting it time after time. Drawing on mathematics, social theory, physics, economics, social biology and philosophy and referencing great thinkers from the Marquis de Condorcet, Herbert Spencer, Newton, Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, Stephen Hawking, Bertrand Russell and Roger Penrose, amongst others, Lee brilliantly presents the argument that the future, far from being mysterious and unknowable, can be understood and predicted.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index.