Word: intuitionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meadows is no latter-day Malthus prophesying doom on the basis of intuition; instead he has produced the first vision of the apocalypse ever prepared by computer. His team built a computer model of the world, fed the machine masses of data on population and industrial growth rates, farm yields...
Not that Chekhov or his characters can foresee how their social reality will change. Astrov (with Chekhov's intuition) is alone in recognizing that it must change. For the others, such problems "are not boring, they're simply beyond me," as the beautiful Yelena remarks at one point."
A happier mood suffuses a stroll the grandmother takes with her tiny grandson. "What will you be when you grow up, and where will I be then?" she questions the oblivious tot, with a wistful but optimistic view of the future. Her strongest link with the future, although she successfully...
Just so: Hoyle is the world's most celebrated astrophysicist, not only because of the reach of his knowledge and intuition, but because of the outrageous speed of his cosmological imagination. Several times Hoyle's exuberance has boiled over into fiction, including The Black Cloud and Rockets in...
In making investment decisions, Talley goes far beyond detailed statistical analysis. She interviews company executives to "get a feeling for the management," sometimes called woman's intuition. She was among the first analysts to recommend Bausch & Lomb and MGIC Investment Corp. before their rises. Talley is now investing mostly...