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PREDICTIONS – 10 Years Later - Santa Fe Institute

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NOTES AND SOURCES<br />

States, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; also from the<br />

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, vols. 1<br />

and 2 (Washington DC: Bureau of the Census, 1976).<br />

6. John D. Williams, “The Nonsense about Safe Driving,” Fortune, vol. LVIII,<br />

no. 3 (September 1958): 118–19.<br />

7. Patent pending.<br />

8. Isaac Asimov, Exploring the Earth and The Cosmos, (New York: Crown<br />

Publishers, 1982).<br />

9. Good News Bible, Today’s English Version, The Bible Society,<br />

Collins/Fontana.<br />

<strong>10</strong>. J. C. Fisher, and R. H. Pry, “A Simple Substitution Model of Technological<br />

Change,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 3, no. 1,<br />

(1971): 75-88, and M.J. Cetron and C. Ralph, eds., Industrial Applications<br />

of Technological Forecasting, (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1971).<br />

11. Alain Debecker and Theodore Modis, “Uncertainties in S-curve Logistic<br />

Fits,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 46, (1994): 153–<br />

73.<br />

12. P. D. Ouspensky, In the Search of the Miraculous, (New York: Harcourt,<br />

Brace and World, 1949).<br />

Chapter Two: Needles in a Haystack<br />

1. An S-curve has been fitted on the data found in T. G. Whiston, “Life Is<br />

Logarithmic,” in J. Rose, ed., Advances in Cybernetics and Systems, (London:<br />

Gordon and Breach, 1974).<br />

2. Theodore Modis, “Learning from Experience in Positioning New Computer<br />

Products,’ Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 41, no. 4<br />

(1992).<br />

3. The data here come from The World Almanac & Book of Facts, 1988 (New<br />

York: Newspaper Enterprise Association, Inc., 1987).<br />

4. Historical Atlas, (Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, 1987).<br />

Chapter Three: Inanimate Production Like Animate Reproduction<br />

1. P. F. Verhulst, “Recherches mathématiques sur la loi d’Accroissement de la<br />

Population” (“Mathematical Research on the Law of Population Growth”),<br />

Nouveaux Memoires de l’Académie Royale des Sciences et des Belles-<br />

Lettres de Bruxelles, vol. 18 (1945): 1-40; also in P. F. Verhulst, “Notice<br />

sur la loi que la population suit dans son accroissement” (“Announcement on<br />

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