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Starting in about the 1950's, a new science (or pseudo-science) emerged: `futurology'.
Its first proponents were academics, offering advice to government planners,
but books like Alvin Toffler's, ``Future Shock'' and John Naisbitt's ``Megatrends''
made it into a popular entertainment. In the 1960's and 1970's,
the sub-genre of ecological forecasting emerged with the Ehrlich's ``The Population Bomb''
and the Club of Rome's ``Limits to Growth''.
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John Jones
2003-11-25