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... future situation may evolve step by step . The purpose is not to predict the future but to generate plausible future situations . So far it has primarily been applied to the exploration of potential military or diplomatic crises ...
... future situation may evolve step by step . The purpose is not to predict the future but to generate plausible future situations . So far it has primarily been applied to the exploration of potential military or diplomatic crises ...
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... future situations , its applications beyond the exploration of hypothetical future and diplomatic situations have been few . Gordon and Helmer have developed a ' Future ' game for the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation in which ...
... future situations , its applications beyond the exploration of hypothetical future and diplomatic situations have been few . Gordon and Helmer have developed a ' Future ' game for the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation in which ...
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... future worlds . The Delphi Technique may be employed to obtain a consensus of opinions on desirable future events and , on long - range goals , scenario writing in reverse ( i.e. describing some desirable future situation and specifying ...
... future worlds . The Delphi Technique may be employed to obtain a consensus of opinions on desirable future events and , on long - range goals , scenario writing in reverse ( i.e. describing some desirable future situation and specifying ...
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