‘America’s journey into the great unknown’, screamed a headline greeting Donald Trump’s election as next President of the United States. Most of us call it the future, which has a long and distinguished tradition of being unknown.
In the ancient world there was quite an industry in attempting to foretell the future: oracles, auguries, dream interpreters and so on.
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