How To Use Futurology In A Sentence
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Failed futurology is among my favorite forms of humor, but I didn't find either of those compelling.
October 30th, 2006
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Some 30 years ago there was some interest in futurology in a few sociology departments but it dwindled over time, perhaps because it is so difficult to quantify the interactions of many variables when their values represent only a guess.
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The book goes off the rails at the very end with a chapter of futurology.
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Bruce Sterling spent some time at the recent SXSW conference chatting about futurology in his usual entertaining style.
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However, as a necessary precursor to that analysis four caveats, or warnings, are signaled which bear upon the degree of confidence that should, and should not, be placed in strategic futurology.
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The way a good investor does really well is by engaging in successful futurology.
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But, as Margolis points out, futurology isn't so much about sketching an inevitable tomorrow as it is about helping to make choices about it.
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So if you're good enough at futurology, you can make it a little bit of a self fulfilling prophecy.
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This skepticism comes from three sources: the limits of futurology, the science of behavioural genetics, and human nature itself.
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The ‘imaginary’ web is conjured up particularly by speculative futurology about how it will change everything utterly.
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Like some other examples of futurology, this prediction did not come true.
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Wisely, given the mercurial nature of futurology, Pryor keeps his statistics basic and his explanations closely tied to the quantitative data on expected economic changes and impacts.
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The need for verisimilitude can sometimes resemble futurology, since both depend upon extrapolation.
Talking about science fiction « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…
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While the futurology may be contentious, I believe there are considerable merits in the cautionary approach outlined in this book.
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I'll get back onto project management and futurology soon.
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A Forecast of Things after the War (1916), by H.G. Wells (Gutenberg text) [Old futurology is among my favorite forms of humor.]
Out of the soylent planet
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The way a good investor does really well is by engaging in successful futurology.
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The next section continues along these lines, offering a modest exercise in futurology and a selective listing of future areas for research.
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Guardian on Arthur C Clarke and the end of upbeat futurology.
SF Tidbits for 1/5/10
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Amongst some managers, however, a change of thinking is becoming apparent: a thinking that suggests that futurology is a worthwhile practice.
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A valid futurology is indeed possible, this despite the fact that the future appears more complex and unpredictable with every passing moment.
Yehuda Berg: Kabbalah: A Sacred Science of the Future
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Most technological futurology see agents as benign, as obedient slaves who only have our best interests at heart.
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The best futurology video I have seen about augmented reality!
Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop on Vimeo
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A similar process is taking place with regard to military study of systems, military study of conflicts, military futurology and military science of science.
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In the area of futurology and the meaning of life, these are a couple of podcasts from IT Conversation that spoke to me lately.
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Yet, even with those caveats, futurology is valuable as it can help us expose lunatics.
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In a sense, the perception of the future as a supreme resource is the driving force of futurology.
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Or are these the "Greatest" because of their innovative contributions to futurology, writing style, story structure, Literary Merit, or some other criterion?
Twelve Greatest Living Science Fiction Writers
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Bluntly stated, the historical record of tolerably accurate strategic futurology is anything but impressive.
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This reminds me, one great example of Victorian futurology, I've put here on my site: Edison's Telephonoscope, in effect, a webcam (England to Australia), as imagined in 1879!