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November 25, 2022
Duration:
Unlimited Duration
FREE
This course includes:
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Description
Explore the future through modeling, reading, and discussion in an open-ended seminar!
Our fields of interest will include changes in science and technology, culture and lifestyles, and dominant paradigms and societies.
Course Curriculum
- The recent past and the near future Unlimited
- Techniques in futurology Unlimited
- Historigraphic theories: class struggle, cycles, and paradigm shifts Unlimited
- Reading Questions Unlimited
- Catastrophic change, power laws, and fractals Unlimited
- Disasters and collapses: nuclear war, global warming, peak oil, bioterrorism Unlimited
- The singularity Unlimited
- World changing, revelations, and revolutions Unlimited
- Future politics Unlimited
- Society in motion Unlimited
- Economics and demographics Unlimited
- Reading Questions Unlimited
- Describing the future Unlimited
- Memetics Unlimited
- Final project presentations Unlimited
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology