The Cultural Embedding of Foreknowledge in Modern Society
Recent Contributions to the Analysis of Social Prediction
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https://doi.org/10.7146/serendipities.v6i1.130368Keywords:
prediction, prognosis, experts, scientific authorityAbstract
Review essay of:
Andersson, Jenny. The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post-Cold War Imagination. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Pietruska, Jamie L. Looking Forward: Prediction & Uncertainty in Modern America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
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