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Max Dublin
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Futurehype: The tyranny of prophecy |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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296 |
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1989 |
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0670824453 |
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Viking |
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1.25 pounds |
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5.6 x 8.6 x 1.3 inches |
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First Edition |
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Product Description
Charting the rise of futurologists and the increasingly powerful roles they are playing in our society, Max Dublin makes clear the appeal that futurology has for us as a way of minimizing our anxieties. But oon a far more dangerous level, Dublin traces the profound effect the institutionalization of prophecy is having on the military, our educational system and health care system. He notes that our overwhelming willingness to be guided by futurologists with their own agendas is in fact narrowing our choices for the future and locking us into a present that is at best increasingly bland and mediocre, and at worst, harmful.
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http://bookmooch.com/0670824453 |
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