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Sto caricando le informazioni... History's Worst Predictions and the People Who Made Them (2011)di Eric Chaline
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Eric Chalinen kirja maailmanhistorian huonoimmista ennustuksista on erittäin viihdyttävää jälkiviisautta. Osansa saavat niin maailmanlopun ennustajat, kuin myöskin erilaisia uusia teknologioita hölynpölyksi tai maailman mullistajaksi nimittäneet entisaikojen henkilöt. Kirjan lukemalla saa hyvän kuvan siitä, miten vaikeaa voi olla arvioida sitä, minkälaiseksi tulevaisuus muotoutuu, ja toisaalta oppii ymmärtämään niitä lähtökohtia, mistä ihmiset ovat ponnistaneet pohdiskellessaan, mitä tulevaisuus tuo tullessaan. Maailmanlopun ennustukset esitellään myös kattavasti ja pohdiskellen, millaisiin perinteisiin ajatus kaiken lopusta nyt tai huomenna perustuvat. Chaline muodostaakin kirjassaan mielenkiintoisen ajatuksen siitä, miten maailmanloppuajattelu on itsessään hyvin vanha ja tiettyjä lainalaisuuksia noudattava perinne. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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It is said that one of the things that sets us apart from the other animals is our ability to conceive of the future. Since the dawn of history, human civilisation has had its prophets, but whether they claim divine inspiration, employ scientific forecasting or economic modelling, or just use their own fertile imaginations, what they have in common is the ability to get things spectacularly wrong. Organised chronologically, History's Worst Predictions excavates the strata of history to expose the rich veins of absurdity that are humanity's prophetic utterances. Every aspect of human life - religion, politics, science, economy, culture and war - has provided material for the most far-fetched and inaccurate of predictions. And the one area where forecasters have got it most consistently wrong is technology: there is not one major invention, from the railroad to the personal computer, that has not been written off as impossible, dangerous or uneconomic. Last but not least are the innumerable prophecies of the End of the World - the religious (Second Comings, Raptures, Armageddons); the natural (comet strikes, killer planetary alignments, rapid ice ages); and the manmade (nuclear annihilation, overpopulation, ecological collapse). Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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