Crucial Questions about the FutureUniversity Press of America, 1991 - 133 páginas Crucial Questions About the Future presents readers concerned about the long-range future and their place in it with a series of tough but necessary questions and, refreshingly, offers no pat answers. Instead, what is offered is a structured and reason-bound exploration of the complexities of modern life with which the reader, or the future-studies inclined academic, can provide his own answers to these eternal and critical questions. Contents: The Future of Human Civilization; What Is Most Important of All?; Why Do We Act In Ways That Hurt Our Future?; What Will Our Actual Future Turn Out To Be?; How Can We Achieve a Satisfactory Future?; Preventing the Worst Catastrophes; Intelligent Life in the Universe: What Role Will It Play In Our Future?; From Which Aspects of Reality Can We Gain Meaning and Purpose?; How Can Each Person Contribute? |
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The Future of Human Civilization | 1 |
Chapter 2 What Is Most Important of All? | 7 |
Why Do We Act in Ways That Hurt Our Future? | 25 |
What Will Our Actual Future Turn Out To Be? | 33 |
Chapter 5 How Can We Achieve a Satisfactory Future? | 47 |
Chapter 6 Preventing the Worst Catastrophes | 71 |
Intelligent Life in the Universe What Role Will It Play in Our Future? | 87 |
From Which Aspects of Reality Can We Gain Meaning and Purpose? | 103 |
Chapter 9 How Can Each Person Contribute? | 111 |
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