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Technological knowledge: A new structure

The purpose of this project is to help energize the innovation chain — the sequence of events that leads from scientific discovery, to technological progress and on to practical application.

Placeholder image Rias Van Wyk

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Introduction to Anticipation Studies (Vol. 1)

Poli, Roberto. 2017. Introduction to Anticipation Studies (Vol. 1). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-3...

Roberto Poli Roberto Poli

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Complexity and Anticipation

Complexity is possibly the most relevant scientific idea that emerged during the past decades.

Mario Giampietro Mario Giampietro John Kineman John Kineman Aloisius Louie Aloisius Louie Roberto Poli Roberto Poli Ilkka Tuomi Ilkka Tuomi

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Anticipation. How Individuals and Communities Use the Future

The future is incorporated into all phenomena, conscious or unconscious, physical or ideational, as anticipation, from those forms of anticipation that are observed, for instance, in a tree that loses its leaves in the Autumn to human planning that colonizes the future inspired by imaginary futures.

Roberto Poli Roberto Poli
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