The Origins Of The Future
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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.
A Brief History Of The Future
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Author : John Naughton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-09-24
A Brief History Of The Future written by John Naughton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-24 with Computers categories.
The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. John Naughton's book intersperses wonderful personal stories with an authoritative account of where the Net actually came from, who invented it and why and where it might be taking us. Most of us have no idea how the Internet works, or who created it. Even fewer have any idea what it means for society and the future. In a cynical age, John Naughton has not lost his capacity for wonder. He examines the nature of his own enthusiasm for technology and traces its roots in his lonely childhood and in his relationship with his father. A Brief History of the Future is an intensely personal celebration of vision and altruism, ingenuity and determination and, above all, of the power of ideas, passionately felt, to change the world.
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.
The History Of The Future
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Author : Edward McPherson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The History Of The Future written by Edward McPherson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
A collection of long essays centered on American places where the past is erupting into the present in unexpected ways.
A Natural History Of The Future
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Author : Rob Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-11-09
A Natural History Of The Future written by Rob Dunn and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Nature categories.
"An arresting vision of this relentless natural world"—New York Times Book Review A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which we have tried to use to seize control of life and bend the planet to our will. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life’s overlords, but we are instead at its mercy. In the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the power of natural selection to create biodiversity, and even the surprising life of the London Underground, Dunn finds laws of life that no human activity can annul. When we create artificial islands of crops, dump toxic waste, or build communities, we provide new materials for old laws to shape. Life’s future flourishing is not in question. Ours is. As ambitious as Edward Wilson’s Sociobiology and as timely as Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction, A Natural History of the Future sets a new standard for understanding the diversity and destiny of life itself.
The Origins History And Future Of The Federal Reserve
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Author : Michael D. Bordo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-25
The Origins History And Future Of The Federal Reserve written by Michael D. Bordo 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 2013-03-25 with Business & Economics categories.
This book contains essays presented at a conference held in November 2010 to mark the centenary of the famous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of leading American financiers and the US Treasury. The 1910 meeting resulted in the Aldrich Plan, a precursor to the Federal Reserve Act that was enacted by Congress in 1913. The 2010 conference, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Rutgers University, featured assessments of the Fed's near 100-year track record by prominent economic historians and macroeconomists. The final chapter of the book records a panel discussion of Fed policy making by the current and former senior Federal Reserve officials.
A History Of The Future
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Author : Gavin Kanowitz
language : en
Publisher: Wingspan Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
A History Of The Future written by Gavin Kanowitz and has been published by Wingspan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Fiction categories.
A History of the Future is a vast but orderly chronicle of the next five hundred year-a map for every science fiction fan and every reader who wishes to testthe plausibility of another's vision. It begins so near to our own time that we easily recognize the significance of the events described and then, year by year, steps away from our present to chronicle the sorts of great changes that must inevitably overtake humanity.
A New History Of The Future In 100 Objects
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Author : Adrian Hon
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-10-06
A New History Of The Future In 100 Objects written by Adrian Hon and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with Fiction categories.
Imagining the history of the twenty-first century through its artifacts, from silent messaging systems to artificial worlds on asteroids. In the year 2082, a curator looks back at the twenty-first century, offering a history of the era through a series of objects and artifacts. He reminisces about the power of connectivity, which was reinforced by such technologies as silent messaging—wearable computers that relay subvocal communication; recalls the Fourth Great Awakening, when a regimen of pills could make someone virtuous; and notes disapprovingly the use of locked interrogation, which delivers “enhanced interrogation” simulations via virtual reality. The unnamed curator quotes from a self-help guide to making friends with “posthumans,” describes the establishment of artificial worlds on asteroids, and recounts pro-democracy movements in epistocratic states. In A New History of the Future in 100 Objects, Adrian Hon constructs a possible future by imagining the things it might leave in its wake. Many of these things are just an update or two away: improved ankle monitors, for example, and deliverbots. Others may be the logical conclusions of current trends—“downvote” networks that identify and erase undesirables, and Glyphish, an emoticon-based language that supersedes the written word. More benign are Braid Collective, which provides financial support for artists, and Rechartered Cities, which invites immigrants to revitalize urban areas hollowed out by changing demographics. With this engaging and ingenious work, Hon leads the way into an imagined future while offering readers a new perspective on the present.
The History Of The Future
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Author : Blake J. Harris
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-02-19
The History Of The Future written by Blake J. Harris and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-19 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual reality, by the bestselling author of Console Wars. Drawing on over a hundred interviews with the key players driving this revolution, The History of the Future weaves together a rich, cinematic narrative that captures the breakthroughs, breakdowns and human drama of trying to change the world. The result is a super accessible and supremely entertaining look at the birth of a game-changing new industry. From iconic books like Neuromancer to blockbuster films like The Matrix, virtual reality has long been hailed as the ultimate technology. But outside of a few research labs and military training facilities, this tantalizing vision of the future was nothing but science fiction. Until 2012, when Oculus founder Palmer Luckey—then just a rebellious teenage dreamer living alone in a camper trailer—invents a device that has the potential to change everything. With the help of a videogame legend, a serial entrepreneur and many other colorful characters, Luckey’s scrappy startup kickstarts a revolution and sets out to bring VR to the masses. As with most underdog stories, things don’t quite go according to plan. But what happens next turns out to be the ultimate entrepreneurial journey: a tale of battles won and lost, lessons learned and neverending twists and turns—including an unlikely multi-billion-dollar acquisition by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, which shakes up the landscape in Silicon Valley and gives Oculus the chance to forever change our reality. Drawing on over a hundred interviews with the key players driving this revolution, The History of the Future weaves together a rich, cinematic narrative that captures the breakthroughs, breakdowns and human drama of trying to change the world. The result is a super accessible and supremely entertaining look at the birth of a game-changing new industry.