History Meets The Future
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A Brief History Of The Future
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Author : Jacques Attali
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2011-07-01
A Brief History Of The Future written by Jacques Attali and has been published by Skyhorse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with History categories.
What will planet Earth be like in twenty years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with dangers. Attali anticipates an unraveling of American hegemony as transnational corporations sever the ties linking free enterprise to democracy. World tensions will be primed for horrific warfare for resources and dominance. The ultimate question is: Will we leave our children and grandchildren a world that is not only viable but better, or in this nuclear world bequeath to them a planet that will be a living hell? Either way, he warns, the time to act is now.
A Short History Of The Future
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Author : W. Warren Wagar
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1999-08
A Short History Of The Future written by W. Warren Wagar and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08 with Family & Relationships categories.
Narrated by a far-future historian, Peter Jensen leaves an account of the world from the 1990s to the opening of the 23rd century as a gift to his granddaughter. A combination of fiction and scholarship, this third edition of Wagar's speculative history of the future alternates between descriptions of world events and intimate glimpses of this historian's family into the first centuries of the new millennium.
History Meets The Future
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Author : Teunis Gerardus Cleminus Aken
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
History Meets The Future written by Teunis Gerardus Cleminus Aken and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
A Brief History Of Tomorrow
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Author : Jonathan Margolis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Release Date : 2000-11-18
A Brief History Of Tomorrow written by Jonathan Margolis and has been published by Bloomsbury USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-18 with Science categories.
A fascinating look at the future, as you've never seen it. Ten years from now, will we have a tiny personal computer surgically inserted in an earlobe, capable of connecting to phone lines and the internet? Fifty years from now, will atomic-sized robots replace surgeons? A hundred years from now, instead of taking the bus, will we simply teleport to work? It all may sound like impossible science fiction, but fifty years ago, so did walking on the moon. Journalist Jonathan Margolis interviews leading thinkers in such fields as genetics, medicine, neurobiology, quantum physics, robotics, computer science, and space travel to explore where we're going, and what it will look like when-and if-we get there. Beginning with famously flawed past visions of the future-among them H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates-Margolis examines many of the strange and tempting futures that may lie in store for us. Politics, society, religion, and work are all destined for great changes. What might they be? How will they come about? Thought-provoking, amusing, and absolutely original, A Brief History of Tomorrow is a deliciously compelling look at something we all spend a lot of time contemplating: the future.
A Brief History Of The Future
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Author : Allan E. Goodman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-04
A Brief History Of The Future written by Allan E. Goodman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-04 with Political Science categories.
This book provides a representation of a world in which none of us have lived and of its potential dynamics. It looks at the interaction of tendencies such as democratization, technological expansion, regional integration, and the obsolescence of war, and discusses U.S. role in changing world order.
History Of The Future
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Author : Max Singer
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2011-07-16
History Of The Future written by Max Singer and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-16 with Political Science categories.
History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows that life in the modern world will be almost completely different from all previous human experience. The present time is best understood as a period of transition during which one country after another is following along parallel paths from traditional to modern. The process of becoming modern is so powerful that it will have similar effects on all countries. Therefore one can predict the future of countries still undergoing this change by looking at the history of countries which have already completed their transition. Singer asserts that a "war system" has long existed in which the central concern of nations has been to protect their security by military forces and alliances. He makes the dramatic claim that, because of the inherent nature of modern countries, there will be no war system in any region populated solely by modern countries-as illustrated by the current situation in Western Europe-even though human character will not have improved. However, despite the fact that poverty, tyranny, and war will be largely eliminated, the modern world may be worse for people than the traditional world because most of the things that shaped human character will be obsolete.
Future
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Author : Lawrence R. Samuel
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2009-06-01
Future written by Lawrence R. Samuel and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-01 with History categories.
The future is not a fixed idea but a highly variable one that reflects the values of those who are imagining it. By studying the ways that visionaries imagined the future—particularly that of America—in the past century, much can be learned about the cultural dynamics of the time. In this social history, Lawrence R. Samuel examines the future visions of intellectuals, artists, scientists, businesspeople, and others to tell a chronological story about the history of the future in the past century. He defines six separate eras of future narratives from 1920 to the present day, and argues that the milestones reached during these years—especially related to air and space travel, atomic and nuclear weapons, the women's and civil rights movements, and the advent of biological and genetic engineering—sparked the possibilities of tomorrow in the public's imagination, and helped make the twentieth century the first century to be significantly more about the future than the past. The idea of the future grew both in volume and importance as it rode the technological wave into the new millennium, and the author tracks the process by which most people, to some degree, have now become futurists as the need to anticipate tomorrow accelerates.
History Of The Future
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Author : Michael Kessler
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2002-04-11
History Of The Future written by Michael Kessler and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-11 with History categories.
The information explosion of the 20th century has made obsolete all of the beliefs about reality that preceded it. Led by the works of Albert Einstein and R. Buckminster Fuller, this new information also opens up new opportunities and possibilities to create a constitutional global society of peace, prosperity, and environmental purity. Fuller's Global Grid Initiative is introduced as a doable, win-win, planetary project to bring this new society into existence. Fuller proposed the interlinking of renewable energy resources to establish a global energy internet. This system will provide a permanent supply of clean, abundant power to uplift the standard of living for the whole world and to eliminate pollution.
Future Stories
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Author : David Christian
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-06-07
Future Stories written by David Christian and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with Social Science categories.
The New York Times bestselling author of Origin Story, who Bill Gates has “long been a fan of,” turns his attention to the future of humanity — and how we think about it — in this ambitious book. The future is uncertain, a bit spooky, possibly dangerous, maybe wonderful. We cope with this never-ending uncertainty by telling stories about the future, future stories. How do we construct those stories? Where is the future, the place where we set those stories? Can we trust our future stories? And what sort of futures do they show us? This book is about future stories and future thinking, about how we prepare for the future. Think of it as a sort of User’s Guide to the Future. We all need such a guide because the future is where we will spend the rest of our lives. David Christian, historian and author of Origin Story, is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. But with Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future, and a guide to what we think we know about it at all scales, from the individual to the cosmological. Christian consults theologians, philosophers, scientists, statisticians, and scholars from a huge range of places and times as he explores how we prepare for uncertain futures, including the future of human evolution, artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, and more. By linking the study of the past much more closely to the study of the future, we can begin to imagine what the world will look like in a hundred years and consider solutions to the biggest challenges facing us all.
A History Of The Future
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Author : Peter J. Bowler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-02
A History Of The Future written by Peter J. Bowler and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-02 with Fiction categories.
A wide-ranging survey of predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology through the twentieth century.