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The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

Technology is widely considered the main source of economic progress, but it has also generated cultural anxiety throughout history. From generation to generation, literature has often portrayed technology as alien, incomprehensible, increasingly powerful and threatening, and possibly uncontrollable. So it … Continue reading →

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Futures Metacognition – A Progressive Understanding of Futures Thinking

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Human thinking about the future, or futures thinking, is probably the most complex process in the universe. But, very much like the phenomenon of time in which we are also comprehensively embedded in our existence, it is both extremely close … Continue reading →

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Quantifying the Advantage of Looking Forward

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

We introduce a future orientation index to quantify the degree to which Internet users worldwide seek more information about years in the future than years in the past. We analyse Google logs and find a striking correlation between the country’s … Continue reading →