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It is well known that futurology, the science of forecasting the future, is a very difficult science. It also depends on the intervals of time for which we pretend to forecast the evolution of the physical system under consideration. Aldous Huxley thought that futurology might be a very good thing.
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Vicente, R.O. (1979). Introduction: The Future of the Researches About the Earth’s Rotation. In: McCarthy, D.D., Pilkington, J.D.H. (eds) Time and the Earth’s Rotation. International Astronomical Union, vol 82. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9368-6_1
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