The Atlantic Monthly | April 2002 Seeing Around Corners The new science of artificial societies suggests that real ones are both more predictable and more surprising than we thought. Growing long-vanished civilizations and modern-day genocides on computers will probably never enable us to foresee the future in detail; but we might learn to anticipate the kinds of events that lie ahead, and where to look for interventions that might work by Jonathan Rauch ..... n about A.D. 1300 the Anasazi people abandoned Long House Valley. To this day the valley, though beautiful in its way, seems touched by...