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245 0 _aKeys to the 21st century/
_cedited by Jerome Binde.
260 _aParis:
_bUNESCO Publishing,
_c2001.
300 _axvi, 395p. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _a Introduction / Jerome Binde -- Foresight and Uncertainty: What Future for the Future? -- A Plurality of Futures? -- The Arrow of Time and the End of Certainty / Ilya Prigogine -- What Future for the Future? -- The Nature of the Future / Hugues de Jouvenel -- The Rehabilitation of Futurology / Colin Blackman -- An African Fable / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- An Ethno-technological Analysis of the Interactions between Technology and Society / Thierry Gaudin -- Inventing the Future / Pentti Malaska -- Futurology in Action / Eleonora Masini Barbieri -- The Future in Brief ... / Peter Mettler -- The Determinants of Futurology / Jesus Moneo -- The End of Francis Bacon's Programme? / Francisco Sagasti -- Futurology and Global Dialogue / Tony Stevenson -- Futurology: A Self-Criticism / Kimon Valaskakis -- The Future of the Species and the Future of the Planet: Towards a Natural Contract? -- What Future for the Human Species? -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Edgar Morin -- Population: From Explosion to Implosion? -- Population and Migration Patterns in the Twenty-First Century / Herve Le Bras -- Forecasting the Ageing of Populations: China and International Comparisons / Zeng Yi -- Biotechnologies: Towards a Brave New World? -- Axel Kahn -- M.G.K. Menon -- Jeremy Rifkin -- What Will We Suffer from in the Twenty-First Century? -- Luc Montagnier -- David Heymann -- Chemical Pollution and Invisible Pollution -- Chemical Pollution and Invisible Pollution: Prospects and Possible Responses / Mohamed Larbi Bouguerra.
650 _aSocial ethics -- Forecasting.
650 _aTwenty-first century -- Forecasts.
650 _a Social history -- 21st century.
700 _aBinde, Jerome.
942 _cWB16