Shaping the Next One Hundred Years New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis

• Auteur principal: Lempert, Robert J. (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: RAND Corporation 2003
• Sujets: Technology: general issues; Transport: general interest; Transportation Studies; Technology
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A sophisticated reader ought to view with great skepticism the prospect of answering questions about the long-term future. The checkered history of predicting the future-from the famous declarations that humans would never fly to the Limits to Growth study to claims about the "New Economy"...