The Next 50 Years
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Making A World Of Difference
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Author : National Academy of Engineering
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2014-01-01
Making A World Of Difference written by National Academy of Engineering and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Fifty years ago, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) was founded by the stroke of a pen when the National Academy of Sciences Council approved the NAE's articles of organization. Making a World of Difference commemorates the NAE anniversary with a collection of essays that highlight the prodigious changes in people's lives that have been created by engineering over the past half century and consider how the future will be similarly shaped. Over the past 50 years, engineering has transformed our lives literally every day, and it will continue to do so going forward, utilizing new capabilities, creating new applications, and providing ever-expanding services to people. The essays of Making a World of Difference discuss the seamless integration of engineering into both our society and our daily lives, and present a vision of what engineering may deliver in the next half century.
Global Catastrophes And Trends
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Author : Vaclav Smil
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2008
Global Catastrophes And Trends written by Vaclav Smil and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Environmental risk assessment categories.
In this book, the author takes a wide-ranging interdisciplinary look at the catastrophes and trends the next fifty years may bring. The author looks at rare but cataclysmic events, both natural and human-produced, then at trends of global importance: the transition from fossil fuels to other energy sources; demographic and political shifts in Europe, Japan, Russia, China, the United States, and Islamic nations; the battle for global primacy; and growing economic and social inequality. He also considers environmental change and assesses the often misunderstood complexities of global warming.
Future Files
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Author : Richard Watson
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2007-09-03
Future Files written by Richard Watson and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-03 with Business & Economics categories.
Prediction is a dangerous game — the future is never a straight, linear extrapolation from the present. Unexpected innovations and events will conspire to trip up the best-laid plans — but it’s better than not thinking about the future at all. This updated and revised edition of Future Files is filled with provocative forecasts about how the world might change in the next half century. It examines emerging patterns and developments in society, technology, economy, and business, and makes educated speculations as to where they might take us. But Future Files is not primarily about prediction. Its goal is to liberate our collective and individual imaginations so that we can see the familiar in a new light and the unfamiliar with greater clarity, and to make us all — individuals and organisations — think about where we are going and to consider whether, when we get there, it will be worth staying. Future Files will prove indispensable to business analysts, strategists, and organisations, and provides rich and fascinating material for us all to contemplate as we rush headlong into the future.
Future Files
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Author : Richard Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Future Files written by Richard Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Wlliam Gladwell meets Alvin Toffler in this lively, provocative and witty look at our possible futures. Filled with provocative forecasts about how the world might change in the next half century, Future Files examines emerging patterns and developments in society, technology, economy, and business, and makes educated speculations as to where they might take us. It is indispensable to business analysts, strategists and organisations who need to stay ahead of the game as well as providing rich and fascinating material for dinner party conversations. Will machines become more intelligent than humans, and even be able to 'read' our minds' Will food in our fridge speak to each other using radio waves, then come up with options for tonight's menu' Is there a looming environmental crisis where Planet Earth is doomed' Would you like a pill that improves your memory' ... Or a moistened tissue that could erase a bad day' Would you feel safer if your front door could tell you whether the person knocking is not a stranger' These are just some of the provocative forecasts about how the world might change in the next half century which Richard Watson explores in 'Future Files'.
Future Predictions
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Author : Bobby Bobby
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2023-11-24
Future Predictions written by Bobby Bobby and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-24 with categories.
- Technology has reached its peak and will not advance. - AI will not have a major breakthrough. - Electric cars will not replace conventional cars. - The business sectors that will grow within the next 50 years. - US civil wars will manifest in the court system; restoring fairness to the law is the #1 priority for the country's future. - A very difficult 30-50 years is approaching Asia. - China may split into three countries. - Europe will not prosper. It will have political upheavals, and the EU will no longer exist. - North America and Australia will have the best economies. - Africa will improve and become more industrialized. Economic Cycle: The reason human societies keep cycling between prosperity and scarcity is because human nature has always been based on small tribal groups fighting for their survival. This is the legacy of humanity, and it hasn't changed. Prosperity is more about giving freely and distributing widely. Non-prosperity is more of the function of holding resources close. While groups can prosper by having resources, humanity, as a whole, does not grow. And that causes imbalance, rectified by violence, starvation, and disease until the balance is restored. Society will only break free from the cycles once we evolve to a higher understanding.
The Future Of Business
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Author : Rohit Talwar
language : en
Publisher: Fast Future Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2015-03-15
The Future Of Business written by Rohit Talwar and has been published by Fast Future Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-15 with categories.
The Future of Business explores how the commercial world is being transformed by the complex interplay between social, economic and political shifts, disruptive ideas, bold strategies and breakthroughs in science and technology. Over 60 contributors from 21 countries explore how the business landscape will be reshaped by factors as diverse as the modification of the human brain and body, 3D printing, alternative energy sources, the reinvention of government, new business models, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and the potential emergence of the Star Trek economy.
100 Predictions For The Baby Boom
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Author : Cheryl Russell
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-11-11
100 Predictions For The Baby Boom written by Cheryl Russell and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-11 with Business & Economics categories.
Without the baby boom, the United States would be a different place. The Vietnam War would have lasted longer. Rock and roll would be less pervasive. The civil rights movement would have changed laws and attitudes more slowly. But women might be further ahead in job status and pay if there had been no baby boorr.. Hous ing would be cheaper. The economy would have done better in the 1970s, and people now in their 20s, 30s, and 40s would be making more money. For the past 30 years, the baby boom generation all those born between 1946 and 1964-shook American economics, politics, and culture. But the full impact of 7 8 PREFACE the baby boom is yet to come because the generation is just now gaining the economic and political power to de termine events. Though the baby boom is a diverse generation linked only by its date of birth, that link is critical. The gener ation spans 19 years, which means many boomers ex perience the same things at the same time-going to col lege, getting a job, marrying, divorcing, buying a house, starting a family. Because of this, the baby boom in fluences what America's businesses produce, what the media write about, and what the politicans support. It focuses the nation's attention on itself; its concerns be come the nation's concerns. Whatever age the baby boom is becomes the nation's age.
The Ocean In A Drop
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Author : Kwon Ping Ho
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2015-10-26
The Ocean In A Drop written by Kwon Ping Ho and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-26 with Political Science categories.
' The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was launched by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in 2014. It is part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore. The Fellowship was set up to fund further research into public policy, with the S R Nathan Fellow, who is appointed annually, delivering between four and six lectures each year. These lectures aim to advance public understanding and discussion of issues of critical national interest. Ho Kwon Ping was the 2014/15 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book contains the five IPS-Nathan Lectures he gave between October 2014 and April 2015, as well as highlights of the accompanying dialogue with the audience. In his lectures, Ho looks forward to the next 50 years, offering innovative ideas and robust views on how governance and key institutions can evolve to ensure the sustainable continuation of Singapore — the "improbable nation". This book illuminates Ho''s vision of a cohesively diverse Singapore lasting beyond the lifespan of his generation, and aims to get the young to ponder and discuss the kind of home, and future, they wish for. Contents: Politics and GovernanceEconomy and BusinessSecurity and SustainabilityDemography and FamilySociety and Identity Readership: General public, professionals, students, researchers, diplomats, and foreign visitors interested in knowing more about Singapore and what lies ahead for the city-state. Key Features:The lectures cover the breadth of social issues facing Singapore today and specifically picks apart the most pertinent topics within each broad categoryHo Kwon Ping is known for his independent thought and speechThe lectures are deliberately accessible to the lay person, and shies away from the technical terms of academiaKeywords:IPS-Nathan;Singapore;Future;Ho Kwon Ping;Politics;Governance;Demography;Family;Society;Identity;Security;Sustainability;Economy;Business "The book is not so much a scholarly treatise as it is a general interest book." Suhaile Md Author of The Middle Ground '
Tomorrow Now
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Author : Bruce Sterling
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008-12-10
Tomorrow Now written by Bruce Sterling and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-10 with Technology & Engineering categories.
“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn’t just talking about machines and biochemistry: what he really cares about are the interstices of technology with culture and human history.” -Kurt Andersen, author of Turn of the Century Visionary author Bruce Sterling views the future like no other writer. In his first nonfiction book since his classic The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling describes the world our children might be living in over the next fifty years and what to expect next in culture, geopolitics, and business. Time calls Bruce Sterling “one of America’s best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” Tomorrow Now is, as Sterling wryly describes it, “an ambitious, sprawling effort in thundering futurist punditry, in the pulsing vein of the futurists I’ve read and admired over the years: H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Alvin Toffler; Lewis Mumford, Reyner Banham, Peter Drucker, and Michael Dertouzos. This book asks the future two questions: What does it mean? and How does it feel? ” Taking a cue from one of William Shakespeare’s greatest soliloquies, Sterling devotes one chapter to each of the seven stages of humanity: birth, school, love, war, politics, business, and old age. As our children progress through Sterling’s Shakespearean life cycle, they will encounter new products; new weapons; new crimes; new moral conundrums, such as cloning and genetic alteration; and new political movements, which will augur the way wars of the future will be fought. Here are some of the author’s predictions: • Human clone babies will grow into the bitterest and surliest adolescents ever. • Microbes will be more important than the family farm. • Consumer items will look more and more like cuddly, squeezable pets. • Tomorrow’s kids will learn more from randomly clicking the Internet than they ever will from their textbooks. • Enemy governments will be nice to you and will badly want your tourist money, but global outlaws will scheme to kill you, loudly and publicly, on their Jihad TVs. • The future of politics is blandness punctuated with insanity. The future of activism belongs to a sophisticated, urbane global network that can make money—the Disney World version of Al Qaeda. Tomorrow Now will change the way you think about the future and our place in it. From the Hardcover edition.
Future Files
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Author : Richard Watson
language : en
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Future Files written by Richard Watson and has been published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Economic forecasting categories.
Looks at such key trends as a power shift to the East, global connectivity, the technology of genetics, the growth of the Internet, and environmental concerns to discuss the changes in human life by the year 2050.