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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Foresight and the Ability to Foresee Future Events

In the book we talk about various things like even exchange systems and bartering, contracts are a big part of that. Reliant on foresight, again, because you representing the fact that in the future, you owe me something and I expect to get it back. That might not be for a long period of time between now and then. And so trying to get to grips with how, how to use foresight, especially in terms of its relationship to our technologies is one of the key challenges that we're facing now.

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