FUTURE SHOCK Chapters 1-3 INTRODUCTION This is a book about what happens to people when they are overwhelmed by change. It is about the ways in which we adapt—or fail to adapt—to the future. Much has been written about the future. Yet‚ for the most part‚ books about the world to come sound a harsh metallic note. These pages‚ by contrast‚ concern themselves with the "soft" or human side of tomorrow. Moreover‚ they concern themselves with the steps by which we are likely to reach tomorrow
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FINE-7670 Risk Management and Applications to Energy Firms Spring 2014 January 15‚ 2014 HW#1 PART I: Analytical Questions 1. The price of gold is currently $600 per ounce. The forward price for delivery in 1 year is $800. An arbitrageur can borrow money at 10% per annum. What should the arbitrageur do? Assume that the cost of storing gold is zero and that gold provides no income. 2. On September 12‚ 2006‚ an investor owns 100 Intel shares. As indicated in the table below‚ the share price
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Cryogenics and the Future Cryogenics is a study that is of great importance to the human race and has been a major project for engineers for the last 100 years. Cryogenics‚ which is derived from the Greek word kryos meaning "Icy Cold‚" is the study of matter at low temperatures. However low is not even the right word for the temperatures involved in cryogenics‚ seeing as the highest temperature dealt with in cryogenics is 100 (C (-148 (F) and the lowest temperature used‚ is the unattainable
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Most people have debates on how the present is better than the future or that the future will be better than the present. No one will know which one is better until we figure out what the “future” is exactly. People imagine that the future is all about flying cars and robots‚ which seems to blow our minds in a positive way. The question is‚ does the future hold up to what it seems to be? Our world today is a better place for us with many reasons. As our world advance in technology‚ we as people
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Walking Through Some Examples of Futures and Options Contracts – Speculation and Hedging As Dr. Cogley said in class the other day‚ sometimes futures contracts and options are hard to wrap your head around until you see them a few times. So I’ve written up some examples similar to those Dr. Cogley did in lecture‚ with a little more explanation about how we get the results that we do. But before we jump into that‚ we need to revisit our terms. 1. Forward contract: A buyer and a seller agree to a specific
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When i think about a future career for myself‚ i see myself doing it for a very long time. In my imagination i picture myself as a millitary special forces officer. I have always wanted to go into the military since i was a little boy. The first time i ever heard about the green berets or the navy seals i knew that was what i wanted to do. I was told that being in the special forces was a very hard‚ but honorable career. You have to be very tough physically and mentally. My favorite thing about the
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The Future Tenses Simple Future There are two different forms in English to express future in the Simple Future: ’ be going to’ and ’will ’. ’Will’ is used to express promises and things we decide to do in the moment of speaking‚ ’going to’ is used to express our plans. Both of those forms can be used to express our predictions. Here goes a list to make it more readable. Use (Will) : 1. Promises (Use 1) 2. Unplanned actions (Use 2) 3. Predictions (Use 3) Use (Going to)*: 1. Planned
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In the futures markets‚ there is no assurance that a liquid market may exist for offsetting a commodity contract at all times. Some future contracts and specific delivery months tend to have increasingly more trading activity and have higher liquidity than others. The most useful indicators of liquidity for these contracts are the trading volume and open interest. There is also dark liquidity‚ referring to transactions that occur off-exchange and are therefore not visible to investors until after
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FUTURE WIHT ROBOTS 50 years ago‚ it could not be possible to think in a future with innovative cell phones‚ internet‚ amazing TV set‚ and some others modern electronic devices that nowadays we can see everywhere. Robots are one of the most interesting inventions of the past century‚ according to Wikipedia‚ the first robot put to industrial work was called UNIMATE and it was invented in 1954. Since then‚ many robots have been invented in order to help people at hardworking work.
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determine our future? Our Future is shaped by three factors: environment‚ education‚ and past experiences. Devoid of a supportive and nurturing environment‚ a brilliant mind can go unnoticed‚ and an opportunity lost. Not having an education decreases your intellect‚ which can in turn‚ negatively influence your chance for a certain career. Past experiences affect you most of all‚ for successes lead to confidence and mistakes can sometimes lead to wisdom. Anybody can alter their future‚ but the past
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