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Prevention means making sure that something does not happen in a certain way. In order to prevent undesirable futures, a complex thinking about possibilities is required, which is why prevention has also gathered considerable momentum in fictional representations.

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Willer, S. (2019). Prevention. In: Paul, H. (eds) Critical Terms in Futures Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4_37

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