Professor Allen Tough: When SETI Succeeds

Professor Allen Tough
Futurist, Scientist, Author
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When SETI Succeeds:
The Impact of High-Information Contact
Dr. Allen Tough, Editor
Copyright © 2000, Foundation for the Future

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Contents
Introduction
Section I - An Extraordinary Event
Section II - Contact: Long-Term Implications for Humanity
Section III - Who Said What: A Summary and Eleven Conclusions
Section IV - Participants' Statements
Section IV Topic 1 - Practical Information
Section IV Topic 2 - Answers to Major Questions
Section IV Topic 3 - Changes in our View of Ourselves
Section IV Topic 4 - Cooperation in Joint Galactic Projects
Section IV Topic 5 - Long-Term Effects Primarily Negative
Section IV Topic 6 - What Next?
Section V - Powerful Insights: In-Depth Papers by Participants and Others
Section V Paper 1 - The Role of the Social Sciences in SETI
Section V Paper 2 - The Cosmic Environment for the Growth of Complexity
Section V Paper 3 - Cosmic Humanity
Section V Paper 4 - How Old is ET?
Section V Paper 5 - Networking with Our Galactic Neighbors
Section V Paper 6 - How to Achieve Contact: Five Promising Strategies
Section V Paper 7 - The Contact Hypothesis
Section V Paper 8 - SETI, Consilience, and the Unity of Knowledge
Section V Paper 9 - Cultural Aspects of Astrobiology
Section V Paper 10 - Speculations on the First Contact
Section V Paper 11 - Roman Catholic Views of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Section VI - Participant's Biographies

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