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During the 2021 International Swedish Science Festival, one session was dedicated to the question “Can we predict the future?”<\/a>\u00a0(in Swedish).<\/p>\r\n

Eight academics from Gothenburg University and Chalmers Technical University presented short lectures on perspectives from their various subjects, predicting everything from national elections, food, the stock market, and human behaviour, and discussing the\u00a0impact of robots, future leadership, and whom to trust.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Although the social sciences were well represented, references to the humanities and the cultural sector were conspicuously absent. I am waiting for the way when it will be self-evident for more historians, classicists, literary scholars, philosophers and others in the humanities to consider the future.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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