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admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:55:25 +0000

Religions consider the future when they address issues such as karma, life after death, and eschatologies that study what the end of time and the end of the world will be. In religion, major prophets are said to have the power to change the future. Common religious figures have claimed to see into the future, such as minor prophets and diviners. The term “afterlife” refers to the continuation of existence of the soul, spirit or mind of a human (or animal) after physical death, typically in a spiritual or ghostlike afterworld. Deceased persons are usually believed to go to a specific region or plane of existence in this afterworld, often depending on the rightness of their actions during life.

Snow

admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:54:19 +0000

While ethologists consider animal behavior to be largely based on fixed action patterns or other learned traits in an animal’s past, human behavior is known to encompass an anticipation of the future. Anticipatory behavior can be the result of a … Continue reading →

Guardian

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:53:21 +0000

Presentism is compatible with Galilean relativity, in which time is independent of space but is probably incompatible with Lorentzian/Einsteinian relativity in conjunction with certain other philosophical theses which many find uncontroversial. Saint Augustine proposed that the present is a knife … Continue reading →

Expired

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:52:37 +0000

In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists and the future and the past are unreal. Past and future “entities” are to be construed as logical constructions or fictions. The opposite of presentism is ‘eternalism’, which is the belief that things in the past and things yet to come exist eternally. One other view (that has not been held by very many philosophers) is sometimes called the ‘growing block’ theory of time, which is a theory that takes the past and present to exist but the future to be nonexistent.

Rise

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:50:46 +0000

Similarly for mathematics, at least in a sort of comical theory, trying to comprehend and predict the future might be possible if one were to derive the most complex mathematical equation that could ever exist pertaining to the exact flow and location of every bit of matter and energy within the universe. Put simply, a progressive equation of every aspect of everything known to exist. However, if it were possible to do so it would likely take an infinite amount of time to perform the tedious calculation and therefore prove to be futile.

Sun

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:49:52 +0000

In classical physics the future is just a half of the timeline. In special relativity the future is considered as absolute future or the future light cone. In physics, time is considered to be a fourth dimension. Physicists argue that space-time can be understood as a sort of stretchy fabric that can bend due to forces such as gravity. While a person can move backwards or forwards in the three spatial dimensions, many physicists argue you are only able to move forward in time.

Fast

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:49:10 +0000

The futures field also excludes those who make future predictions through professed supernatural means. At the same time, it does seek to understand the models such groups use and the interpretations they give to these models. Continue reading →

Afternoon

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:47:42 +0000

Three factors usually distinguish futures studies from the research conducted by other disciplines (although all disciplines overlap, to differing degrees). First, futures studies often examines not only possible but also probable, preferable, and “wild card” futures. Second, futures studies typically attempts to gain a holistic or systemic view based on insights from a range of different disciplines. Third, futures studies challenges and unpacks the assumptions behind dominant and contending views of the future. The future thus is not empty but fraught with hidden assumptions.

Lie

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:46:51 +0000

Futures is an interdisciplinary field, studying yesterday’s and today’s changes, and aggregating and analyzing both lay and professional strategies, and opinions with respect to tomorrow. It includes analyzing the sources, patterns, and causes of change and stability in the attempt to develop foresight and to map possible futures. Modern practitioners stress the importance of alternative and plural futures, rather than one monolithic future, and the limitations of prediction and probability, versus the creation of possible and preferable futures.

Good Job

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:45:34 +0000

Futures studies does not generally include the work of economists who forecast movements of interest rates over the next business cycle, or of managers or investors with short-term time horizons. Most strategic planning, which develops operational plans for preferred futures with time horizons of one to three years, is also not considered futures. But plans and strategies with longer time horizons that specifically attempt to anticipate and be robust to possible future events, are part of a major subdiscipline of futures studies called strategic foresight.