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NEW YORK AREA, the long run: Mitchell Zukor, a talented young mathematician, is employed with a strange new economic consulting company, FutureWorld. The company operates out-of a cavernous office in the Empire State-Building; Mitchell is staff number 2. He's requested to determine worst-case situations in the absolute most elaborate detail, and his strategies can be purchased to companies to indemnify them against any potential problems. This is actually the leading edge of corporate irresponsibility, and company is booming.As Mitchell immerses herself in the arithmetic of catastrophe—ecological fall, worldwide conflict, organic disasters—he becomes preoccupied with a culture’s worries.