History assignment.

1. Futurology

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2. Ossip Flechtheim or John von Neumann or Alan Turing

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3. Mathematical probability (in connection with future predictions)

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4. The ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ and/or ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ (aka ‘Goat-Car-Goat’)

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5. Science Fiction

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6. Exponential growth

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7. The transhuman condition

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8. Time travel and/or the ‘Grandfather Paradox’

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9. Deep Blue

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10. Technological singularity

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