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What We Talk About When We Talk About the Future

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Robert de Neufville

Here are two graphs I made with Google’s Ngram Viewer. The graphs show how frequently a number of future-related terms occur in the more than 100 billion words of Google Books’ English-language corpus from 1950-2008. The charts are moderately smoothed to highlight longer-term … Continue reading →

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What We Talk About When We Talk About the Future

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