“Wild cards” (“Wild Cart”, “Joker”) are unlikely, but extremely significant events. Such events go beyond the scope of the prognostic capabilities of mankind, but they should happen as the fate and the way of thinking of people immediately change radically. It can be both global disasters (asteroid fall), and an unexpected and important innovation (positional recording of the number, double accounting), a fundamental idea (major), an artistic text (“Alice in Wonderland”).
In his new book “Wild Cards” of the Future. Force Major for Humanity, Sergei Pereslegin – Guru of Modern Futurology, the head of the group “Design the future”, is looking for unknown options for the development of society, tries to simulate the reactions of mankind that has encountered problems with completely new problems for him.
Author
Pereslegin Sergey Borisovich, Pereplebina Elena
Editor
Klimenko A. Yu.
Publisher
Algorithm, 2015
Series
What will be the world
Genre
Policy
16+
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