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The Wild, The Innocent, and The Quaker’s Struggles

Quests for Fire: Neanderthals and Science Fiction Party Like It’s 1999: Japanese Retrofuturism and Chrono Trigger Monstrous News: the Futures of the Mistris Parliament Plays Perchance to Dream: Science and the Future The Case for Female Astronauts: Reproducing Americans in the Final Frontier Divine Reverie: Revelation, Dream Interpretation, and Teeth in Antiquity Letter from the Editors: Futures of the Past It simply gives us another mirror in which to see society reflected, another filter which filters out some things and lets other useful things come through.Įlsewhere in this issue… Chapter 1: Bad Predictions As I see it, it doesn’t restrict our range of choice.

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This is just one way of working toward a series of successively closer approximations, through the isolation of relevant variables and modes of description, which will enhance our understanding of our society. Whether we try to set up an organic or a mechanical model, there will be those who feel that it is all-inclusive, but these are not usually the people whose opinions we would respect anyway. If you are Karl Marx you look at it in terms of economics if you are Freud you look at it in terms of conflict and resolution of conflict others do it in still different ways. It appears to me that every attempt to approach society, whether scientifically or otherwise, involves the selection of a limited number of dimensions, a restriction in the total complex perspective.

I wonder, Jack, why you are so concerned.

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