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Synopsis
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: True or False: The Problem Here is Identifying What is True and What is Not.
Scenario 1: Market Madness
Scenario 2: Bureaucratic Truth
Scenario 3: The Courts of Supreme Wisdom
Scenario 4: Enemy of the People
Chapter 3: Proliferation: Doomsday or Politics? The Problem Here is Controlling Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Scenario 1: A Mouse on the Road to Hell
Scenario 2: The Decision Maker
Scenario 3: In the Fruit Garden of Pakistan
Scenario 4: The Story Behind Trump-Putin Day
Scenario 5: Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle
Chapter 4: The Bounds of Humanity: Will Malthus Ultimately Be Proven Correct? The Problem Here is that We Don't Know How to Limit Population Growth or if New Policies are Really Necessary. Can We Leave it to Chance?.
Scenario 1: The China Syndrome
Scenario 2: Super Saltpeter
Scenario 3: Birth Certificates
Scenario 4: Design Discord
Chapter 5: The Beginning and Hereafter: Why do We Exist?.
Scenario 1: Faust
Scenario 2: A Creation Myth: Empiricism
Scenario 3: It is all About Connections
Chapter 6: Immortality: Where Does the Need to be Remember.
Scenario 1: Legacy
Scenario 2: Aunt Sadie
Scenario 3: Rot in Peace
Scenario 4: Living Healthy Forever
Chapter 7: Religion: The Problem Here is that in Religion, as well as Other Institutions, We See Corruption, Immorality, Ethical Lapses, and Abuses. In its Entwinement with Government: Who Makes and Enforces Laws, Sets Education Standards, and Provides Security: the People, the King, or God?.
Scenario 1: Moot Point
Scenario 2: End of the Rainbow
Scenario 3: Godspeak: Religion Tech
Chapter 8: Decision Making: The Talent for Decisions. The Problem Here is that Most Decisions Turn out Badly.
Scenario 1: First in My Decision Class
Scenario 2: Inferences
Scenario 3: Where is Morality
Chapter 9: Dealing with Bio-terrorism: The Problem Here is that Terrorism can Adopt Biological Weapons as an Attack Mode: Harder to Detect, More Dangerous in its Outcome.
Scenario 1: The Path to SIMAD
Scenario 2: The First Motive
Scenario 3: Reset
Scenario 4: Trade Off
Chapter 10: Our Computer Overlords: The Problems Here are the Contest Between Work and Leisure, How Much of Each, Who has Either and the Chances for AI Becoming our Masters.
Scenario 1: Plug Me in Poppy
Scenario 2: I am a Machine
Scenario 3: Super Sari and Her Sisters
Chapter 11: What Constitutes Progress? The Problem Here is Defining What Constitutes Progress and MEans for Attaining it Since Science, Technology, Politics, and Markets do not Necessarily Follow Paths tha tLead to Solutions of Pressing Problems or Attainment of Goals.
Scenario 1: Shangri-La: Gross National Happiness
Scenario 2: Chasing Highs
Scenario 3: The Best of All Possible Worlds
Scenario 4: Stasis is Good
Chapter 12: Political Chaos: The Problem Here is What Politics Has Become. Civility is Almost Gone, Debate is Almost Non-existent, yet the Sides are Firm in Their Positions and Sure They are Right.
Scenario 1: Electing?
Scenario 2: Common Enemy
Scenario 3: Strong Woman
Chapter 13: The Perfect Human: Unlocking the Mysteries of Human Genetics and Developing the Technologies to Manipulate Heredity Will Give, for Better or Worse, a New Dimension to Our Ability to Set the Fate of Our Children.
Scenario 1: Untitled
Scenario 2: Can We Imagine
Chapter 14: Conclusions.
Appendix A Methodologies.
Appendix B Authors' Biographies.
Index.
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