Has anyone written a history centered on predictions/expectations about the future?
score:1
Accepted answer
I'm not sure whether my proposition answers exactly your question. But is a good start.
There are some historians who study trends in history, which means, they try to find patterns in history that might explain it, and in some way describe a the potential future based in the models they have. This is not Psychohistory as one might hope to find, but instead is called Philosophy of history. Some interesting authors are Ibn Khaldun, Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee or maybe recently Peter Turchin, Francis Fukuyama or Samuel Huntington.
From that list of authors, maybe Spengler or Fukuyama are the ones who tried to describe a potential future for western civilization, even thoug Fukuyama later had to modify his prediction.
Who was more effective to describe the future? Maybe Khaldun, whose theory of asabiyyah was strong enough to describe the dynamic of invasions that came from dessert tribes.
I recommend you start with Huntington or Turchin. They are contemporary. Or, if you have time, the abridged version of Study of History.
More post
- 📝 Was Edward VIII of England forced to abdicate?
- 📝 Did Truman really believe that Hiroshima was a military base?
- 📝 What were the rules of the migration to the Louisiana Territory in USA?
- 📝 Will we ever get anything like the LBJ & Nixon White House recordings for contemporary presidents?
- 📝 Which person is portrayed in this statue?
- 📝 What changes were made to address the Junkers 88 initial high accident losses?
- 📝 Plans to depose, disgrace, or assassinate Hitler
- 📝 Is the Kalashnikov Automatic Rifle 1947 still in production?
- 📝 Why was Poland subject to much harsher Russification than Finland was?
- 📝 Border crossings between USSR and Afghanistan in the 1960s
- 📝 When and where was the term "nigra" used and what was its relation to "nigger"?
- 📝 Were any tactical missiles used during the 1971 Indo Pakistan war?
- 📝 Can anyone help me identify this coin? Basiliea Selvykou. Rev: ICA
- 📝 What were Rommel's views on the Nazi crimes?
- 📝 How to travel from Koblenz (Germany) to Paris (France) in May 1805?
- 📝 Where did Metternich say the Balkans began?
- 📝 Invention of Planned Obsolescence
- 📝 What kind of music was played at European, High Middle Age (c. 1100-1400 A.D.) universities' ceremonies?
- 📝 1985 magazine cover about Strategic Defense Initiative - Who is Darth Vader?
- 📝 What were the differences between the Sieges of Constantinople in 678, 717, and 1453, inc. Greek Fire?
- 📝 Why are some cultures historically more modest than others?
- 📝 How did Native Americans refer to themselves in the 19th century?
- 📝 What were the duties of a scullery maid in the early 1900's?
- 📝 What is the earliest example of the usage of 'Nazis' to refer clearly and exclusively to the National-Socialists?
- 📝 Did the Assiniboine live around Fort Assiniboine (Canada)?
- 📝 Did the US try to buy California before the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
- 📝 Was the Titanic tragedy at least partly avoidable?
- 📝 Why didn't the Incan Empire use iron?
- 📝 Was an uppercase j used to replace an uppercase i letter on German monument inscriptions?
- 📝 How would an American returning from international travel prove his citizenship before 1914?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Has anyone written a history centered on predictions/expectations about the future?
- 📝 Has anyone written Australian history from the perspective of the original inhabitants - the aborigines?
- 📝 Is history always written by the victors?
- 📝 Why was PTSD not written about as much before the 20th century?
- 📝 Is black American history only about segregation, slavery, and the 3 people you get taught about in school?
- 📝 What do I need to know about Syria's history to understand the 2011-2012 uprising?
- 📝 Did anyone warn about the potential for stock market crashes in 1929, and if so why were their warnings ignored?
- 📝 Why has there only been one dynasty in the history of Japan?
- 📝 Has anyone tried to map the Tribal Hidage
- 📝 Can anyone explain why the Scottish flag on this map from 1504 has a red cross on a white background?
- 📝 Does anyone know the history on this artillery shell I found in my grandfather’s shed?
- 📝 Looking for a particular documentary about the history of long distance communication
- 📝 Should you be pedantic about the clerical errors you see in a History reference book?
- 📝 Is there a written history on the Sonderkommando Elbe?
- 📝 Which country in history has had the highest number of presidential assassinations?
- 📝 When studying about the history of, say, Philippines, is it generally better to prioritize the works of Filipino Historians than foreign historians?
- 📝 What is the source of a half remembered art history quote possibly about Bruneleschi's Florence Cathedral?
- 📝 Has anyone (other than Churchill) indicated that the Germans might have won a negotiated peace in World War II?
- 📝 Can anyone verify this story about the President's driver?
- 📝 What country has the shortest history of human habitation?
- 📝 How many times in history has a government completely "moulded to its own shape the physical character of the people"?
- 📝 Has any war in recorded history ever resulted in the complete annihilation (civil and military) of an enemy - all of them killed with no survivors?
- 📝 Does anyone know anything on the history or any other information on this dagger?
- 📝 Can anyone tell me anything about the markings on these shell casings?
- 📝 When did the allies find out about the killing of Jews during WW2
- 📝 Has there ever been a case when a traitorous military commander took command again for the side he betrayed?
- 📝 Has anyone ever named a war after their own country or faction?
- 📝 Has there ever been a cold war other than between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.?
- 📝 Has the United States ever had a non-Christian President?
- 📝 Has an heir ever made the country believe the current ruler died in order to take over the throne?