Anticipation

In tennis, the return of a serve is successful only through anticipatory mechanisms on the part of the defensive player. When playing the stock market, anticipation of supply and demand, price variations, and other factors is crucial, the very driving engine of most exchanges. Anticipation: it occurs in all spheres of life. Not least of all is the realm of creativity, the fields of art and design. (Buckminster Fuller even taught a class in anticipatory design in 1956 at MIT.) As you might have expected, this volume casts light on design problems relating to anticipatory processes.