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35: 471:"... he (Modis) does cite the relationship of his 'overall' 56-year cycles and evidence on the associated clustering of technological innovations to prior work by Kondratieff and Schumpeter (in my opinion, Modis’ evidence on these topics is more extensive and compelling than that of either of these scholars.)" - 454:"You must read this book. It is the most delightful one on forecasting I have encountered in a very long time. Written for the enjoyment of both layperson and professional, it is fascinating and provocative." - 193:
or S-curve to forecast markets, product sales, primary-energy substitutions, the diffusion of technologies, and generally any process that grows in competition. He is a vehement critic of the concept of the
189:, and international consultant. He specializes in applying fundamental scientific concepts to predicting social phenomena. In particular, he uses the law of natural growth in competition as expressed by the 461:"We have the technology now to forecast many social phenomena ... . I follow the work of Theodore Modis, who nicely sums up the case for utility and believability of predictions." - 863:
Modis, Theodore (2022). "Links between entropy, complexity, and the technological singularity". Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Volume 176, 2022-3, p. 121457.
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Debecker, Alain, and Modis, Theodore (1994). “Determination of the Uncertainties in S-curve Logistic Fits”. Technological Forecasting & Social Change. 46 (2): 153-173.
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Natural Laws in the Service of the Decision Maker - How to Use Science-Based Methodologies to See more Clearly further into the Future
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Natural Laws in the Service of the Decision Maker: How to Use Science-Based Methodologies to See more Clearly further into the Future
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Modis, Theodore (2007). “Strengths and Weaknesses of S-Curves”. Technological Forecasting & Social Change. 74, (6): 866-872.
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Decision-Making for a New World: Natural Laws of Evolution and Competition as a Road Map to Revolutionary New Management
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Conquering Uncertainty: Understanding Corporate Cycles and Positioning Your Company to Survive the Changing Environment
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Modis, Theodore (2006). “The Singularity Myth”. Technological Forecasting & Social Change. 73 (2): 104-112.
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for more than a decade as the head of a management science consultants group. He has on occasion taught at
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He has published about one hundred articles in scientific and in business journals, as well as ten books:
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Modis, Theodore (2020). “Forecasting the Growth of Complexity and Change—An Update”. Published in
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2017 Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing by the international journal
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Predictions - Society's Telltale Signature Reveals the Past and Forecasts the Future,
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An S-Shaped Trail to Wall Street - Survival of the Fittest Reigns at the Stock Market
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Modis, Theodore (2012). “Why the Singularity Cannot Happen”. Published in
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Science with Street Value: A Physicist's Wanderings off the Beaten Track
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Science with Street Value: A Physicist’s Wanderings off the Beaten Track
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Science with Street Value: A Physicist's Wanderings off the Beaten Track
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Fortune Favors the Bold: A Woman's Odyssey through a Turbulent Century
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Fortune Favors the Bold: A Woman’s Odyssey through a Turbulent Century
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1997 Outstanding-Paper-of-the-Year Award by the international journal
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Fortune Favors the Bold: A Woman’s Odyssey through a Turbulent Century
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Fortune Favors the Bold: A Woman’s Odyssey through a Turbulent Century
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Press, Stuttgart, October 2018. Greek edition under the title
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has been translated into Greek and published under the title
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Korotayev, Andrey; LePoire, David (Eds.) (January 3, 2020).
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as the latter being the time derivative of the former.
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BusinessWeek Books, McGraw-Hill, New York, June 1998.
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An S-Shaped Adventure - "Predictions" 20 Years Later
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An S-shaped Adventure: "Predictions" 20 Years Later
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New York: Springer. p. 311. 1217:List of articles by Theodore Modis 982:. New York: Simon & Schuster. 837:Modis, Theodore (May–June 2003). “ 14: 727:Modis, Theodore (July 1, 2013). 319:An S-Shaped Trail to Wall Street 281:, the European business schools 259:Brookhaven National Laboratories 1210:List of books by Theodore Modis 841:”. The Futurist. 37 (3): 26-32. 607:Press, Stuttgart, October 2020. 343:Decision-Making for a New World 680:10.1016/j.techfore.2013.02.010 444:, Physicist, Nobel Prize 1984. 253:Modis carried out research in 1: 1265:Swiss people of Greek descent 1260:20th-century Greek physicists 1092:10.1126/science.259.5099.1349 1086:(26 February 1993): 1349–50. 553:Predictions: - 10 Years Later 267:Digital Equipment Corporation 150:Digital Equipment Corporation 1167:– via www.youtube.com. 1017:10.1016/0040-1625(92)90040-Z 465:, Executive Editor of WIRED. 1255:People associated with CERN 331:Predictions: 10 Years Later 1281: 15: 1067:. 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Index

Theodoros Modis

Greece
Greek
Swiss
Anatolia College
Columbia University
S-Curve
Technological Singularity
Physics
forecasting
business consulting
CERN
University of Geneva
Digital Equipment Corporation
Growth Dynamics
Jack Steinberger
futurist
physicist
logistic function
Technological Singularity
Entropy
Complexity
Lugano
Switzerland
Columbia University
Electrical Engineering
J. Steinberger
Anatolia College
Thessaloniki

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