The resulting physical view arguably contains anticipations of the fundamental character of modern physics, and certainly anticipates modern theory of homeostatic systems.
And after all these happy anticipations, what do I get?
This list of contrasts could be greatly extended, but the point is made: all of these forecasts and anticipations failed miserably because their authors and promoters ignored one of the most important realities ruling the behavior of complex energy systems the inherently slow pace of energy transitions.For very mundane, logistical reasons, a major energy transition is sure to take some time.
Turning, as he often did, to evidence from literary and mythical texts as anticipations of his psychological insights, Freud interpreted that source in terms of Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Rex.
By the fall of 1929, U.S. stock prices had reached levels that could not be justified by reasonable anticipations of future earnings.
There are distinct anticipations of positivism in ancient philosophy.
In contrast to the conception of ideas as images and copies of impressions or of external objects, pragmatist theories emphasized the functional character of ideas: ideas are suggestions and anticipations of possible conduct; they are hypotheses or forecasts of what will result from a given action; they are ways of organizing behaviour in the world rather than replicas of the world.
A great number of the attempts undertaken to found radical Christian communities in North America may be viewed as anticipations of the coming Jerusalem.
While it is true that some of the Greek atomists' ideas can rightly be considered as precursors of later physics, the main importance of the old atomistic doctrines for modern science does not lie in these primitive anticipations.
Such anticipations, including the Sinfonia à 8 (i.e., in eight parts; 1618) of one Francesco Usper a fortuitous, miniature concerto grosso in all but the name accumulated during the 17th century.
H.G. Wells's utopian studies, the aptly titled Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought (1901) and A Modern Utopia (1905), both captured and qualified this optimistic mood and gave expression to a common conviction that science and technology would transform the world in the century ahead.
