Future(s) Studies
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Imagine the possibilities of an economic system where extreme poverty becomes obsolete, to where no human suffering from lack of housing, utilities, or food exists, and the deserving actualize their potential without unnecessary obstacles.
Linked here is a Political Description & Statement
What would it take for something like this to manifest in a country such as the USA? How about a developing country, or an undeveloped country? Is it possible that at least one developed economy adopts Creator Currency Octaves and UBI within the next 5 years? 10 years? 20? 50?
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On Futurology
If history studies our past and social sciences study our present, what is the study of our future? Future(s) Studies (colloquially called "future(s)" by many of the field's practitioners) is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to hypothesize the possible, probable, preferable, or alternative future(s).
One of the fundamental assumptions in future(s) studies is that the future is plural rather than singular, that is, that it consists of alternative future(s) of varying degrees of likelihood but that it is impossible in principle to say with certainty which one will occur.