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Instructor

James Rising

Departments

Experimental Study Group

As Taught In

Spring 2008

Level

Undergraduate

Course Info

Instructor

James Rising

Departments

Experimental Study Group

As Taught In

Spring 2008

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Humanities
- History
  - Historiography
  - Modern History

Topics

Humanities
- History

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How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization will Change the Way You Live and Work

Questions from the Fourth Turning

Lecture 1: Introduction and the Recent Past

Lecture 2: Techniques in Futurology

Lecture 3: Historigraphic Theories

Lecture 4: Catastrophic Change, Power Laws, and Fractals

Lecture 5: Disasters and Collapses

Lecture 6: The Singularity

Lecture 7: World Changing, Revelations, and Revolutions

Lecture 8: Future Politics

Lecture 9: Society in Motion

Lecture 11: Economics and Demographics

Lecture 12: Describing the Future

Lecture 13: Memetics

Lecture 14: Final Project Presentations

Course Info

Instructor

James Rising

Departments

Experimental Study Group

As Taught In

Spring 2008

Level

Undergraduate

Course Info

Instructor

James Rising

Departments

Experimental Study Group

As Taught In

Spring 2008

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Humanities
- History
  - Historiography
  - Modern History

Topics

Humanities
- History

Learning Resource Types

Activity Assignments

Lecture Notes

Written Assignments

Download Course

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