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NOTES.

INTRODUCTION.

1 most important issues they expected to emerge

Peter Lindstrom, The Future Agenda as Seen by the Committees and Subcommittees of the United States House of Representatives: A Workbook for Partic.i.p.atory Democracy (Washington, DC: Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future and the Congressional Inst.i.tute for the Future, 1982).

2 born in Russia a few months before the 1917 Revolution

The n.o.bel Prize in Chemistry, 1977: Ilya Prigogine, "Autobiography," http://www.n.o.belprize.org/n.o.bel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1977/prigogine-autobio.html#.

3 educated in Belgium

Ibid.

4 responsible for irreversibility in nature

Peter T. Macklem, "Emergent Phenomena and the Secrets of Life," Journal of Applied Physiology 104 (2008): 184446; Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (New York: Penguin, 1999).

5 donut with clearly defined boundaries

Macklem, "Emergent Phenomena and the Secrets of Life."

6 at a higher level of complexity

Ibid.

7 stabilized underground for millions of years

Farrington Daniels, "A Limitless Resource: Solar Energy," New York Times, March 18, 1956.

8 "which made so manifest the 'arrow of time' "

Prigogine, "Autobiography."

9 "they are understood in different ways in different societies"

Ivana Milojevi, "A Selective History of Futures Thinking," from "Futures of Education: Feminist and Post-Western Critiques and Visions" (Ph.D. diss., University of Queensland, 2002).

10 trying to divine the future with the help of oracles or mediums

Ibid.

11 animals sacrificed to the G.o.ds

Ibid.

12 by studying the movements of fish

Ibid.

13 marks on the Earth

Ibid.

14 each molecule of the gaseous cylinders onto which

Tracy V. Wilson, "How Holograms Work," HowStuffWorks, http://science.howstuffworks.com/hologram.htm.