Does Functional Foresight lead to technological determinism?
It was the same foresight that led him to establish land-grant colleges and finish the Transcontinental Railroad — the idea that the essence of America is this hunger to innovate, this restlessness, this quest for the next big thing.
It was this foresight that led to Pepsi out-performing Coca-Cola for the first time in over a century before the economic downturn when, in the first half of the Noughties, PepsiCo stock rose more than a third while Coca-Cola Company's dropped by 30 per cent.
That complete lack of foresight has led experts to warn that, for all its injustices, the bedroom tax might not even save anyone any money.
While in the course of figuring out the drug's incredible power on parasites of livestock, it was Bill's foresight that led to its widespread use to combat human river blindness.
Eleven were direct employees of the corporation and three were outside consultants hired by corporations with expertise in foresight to lead or participate in foresight projects.
In each case, it was executed by the International Panel of Foresight Evaluation Experts led by a renowned foresight scientist (L. Georghiou and A. Salo, respectively) composed of foresight practitioners and two representatives of German academic and business communities.
Eventually, "when the same thing happens to the evil horse many times, it allows the charioteer with his foresight to lead" (e5 7).
For the roughly two thousand supporters who attended the Grand Staircase-Escalante signing ceremony, in 1996, the monument was an expression of the same sort of foresight that had led President Theodore Roosevelt to protect the Grand Canyon, in 1908.
Eventually, Perutz wrote a book in 1992 entitled Protein Structure: New Approaches to Disease and Therapy, and he dedicated it to Himsworth, writing that "[Himsworth's] foresight and courage led him to support my colleagues and my early work on protein structures when there was only the faintest hope of it ever benefitting medicine".
