Article: Looking at the future. (economic forecasting)

"We should all be concerned about the future because we will all have to spend the rest of our lives there," said Charles Kettering, American manufacturer and inventor. The success of books like John Naisbitt's Megatrends and Alvin Toffler's Future Shock is testimony to the concern many people have about the future. Alvin Toffler, in Preview and Premises, expressed well the reason for our interest in the future: "Looking into the future--which no one can do except in a metaphorical sense--is a way of improving decisions in the present." Thus, by listening to the weather forecast we can make a better decision about the clothing to wear. By anticipating changes in the ...

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