Future Studies

'David Christian's approach to understanding history can help all of us learn to prepare for the future' - Bill GatesA user's guide to the future: from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism,...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Transhumanism is a philosophy which advocates for the use of technology to radically enhance human capacities. This book interrogates the promises of transhumanism, arguing that it is deeply...

The author heads a company that specializes in trend forecasting. In this guide, he identifies today's hidden, influential trends and reveals how they'll shape the events of the coming century.Book InformationISBN 9780446673310Author Gerald CelenteFormat...

A wide-ranging and original introduction to the Anthropocene (the Age of Humanity) that offers fresh, theoretical insights bridging the sciences and the humanities From noted environmental historian Carolyn Merchant, this book focuses on the original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262681155Author Howard RheingoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and-finally-the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of...

The United States is in steep decline. Plagued by runaway debt, a shrinking economy, and environmental catastrophes to rival Chernobyl, the United States has been retracing the trajectory of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s toward national bankruptcy...

Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation As the scale and gravity of climate change becomes undeniable, a cultural revolution must ultimately match...

A chilling high-concept geo-political thriller where a declining United States and a resurgent China come to the brink of all out nuclear war. The year is 2028. Oil is the black gold that controls the fortunes of all nations and the once-mighty United...

Sensing a future beyond work lurking in an age of crisis, the 'post-capitalist' utopias of today spread the idea of a permanent escape from work aided by the automation of production, a universal basic income and the reduction of working hours to zero...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955110006Author Roger SpitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 596Imprint Disruptive Futures InstitutePublisher Disruptive Futures InstituteWeight(grams) 1048g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767923057Author George FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Uncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis. This book...

The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this as a question about our moral responsibilities, and...

Whether it's an unforeseen financial crash, a shock election result or a washout summer that threatens to ruin a holiday in the sun, forecasts are part and parcel of our everyday lives. We rely wholeheartedly on them, and become outraged when things...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399184130Author Chuck KlostermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

An essential balm for these tumultuous times, this thoughtful and inspiring guide features newly gathered teachings to abandon the idea there is an "other," bridging differences and cherishing our lives in the world, from beloved spiritual leader Ram...

'Rigorous, rationally optimistic and ultimately empowering' OLIVER BURKEMAN'A deeply-considered - and funny - treatise on complacency' ALEX McDOWELL'Essential' DAVID EAGLEMAN'A rare and wondrous thing' STEPHEN FRYAs the tempo of change accelerates beyond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374619350Author Nick FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint MCDPublisher MCDWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 147mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398812932Author Nigel CawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417121037Author Javier EcheverriaFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Plaza Y ValdesPublisher Plaza Y ValdesWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Future Proofing Australia is a selection of essays by distinguished thinkers and doers boldly confronting the future and mapping out a path for our country.The contributors understand that ideas matter. They want to see Australia identify, confront and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957363837Author Maja GoepelFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe UsWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644214190Author Slavoj ZizekFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Imagining After Capitalism is the culmination of professional futurist Andy Hines's 10-year exploration of what comes next after capitalism. Drawing on his decades of experience developing foresight methodologies, he offers three "guiding images" for the...

in The Next Crisis leading geographer Danny Dorling unpacks the data on what people really think about when they consider the future. In a series of global surveys, he shows that our global concerns are often very different to those in the headlines -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorwles /f Jib les /f Robert /i BrentBook InformationISBN 9780837198859Author Jib FowlesFormat HardbackPage Count 822Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher Bloomsbury...

This book brings together experts in international relations and comparative politics in order to examine the sociopolitical and economic issues of individual socialist countries and to investigate specific issues cross-nationally. In addition to...

Crucial Questions About the Future presents readers concerned about the long-range future and their place in it with a series of tough but necessary questions and, refreshingly, offers no pat answers. Instead, what is offered is a structured and...

In All Societies Die, Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But he also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope. In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion Cohn...

Future Trends: A Guide to Decision Making and Leadership in Business is the first and only book to link a decision-making and leadership platform to trends pointing to the future. By identifying sixty global, long-term trends and detailing how...

Showing how scarcity and surplus populations can lead to disaster, the contributors to this text discuss ""ethnic cleansing"" and the world's expanding killing fields. They anticipate mass death and genocide for the 21st century and provide responses to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316497466Author David ChristianFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Little, Brown SparkPublisher Little, Brown SparkWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

We are now entering an era where the human world assumes recognition of itself as data. Much of humanity's basis for existence is becoming subordinate to software processes that tabulate, index, and sort the relations that comprise what we perceive as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608761340Author Eugenio GiordanoFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 330g

In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771835749Author Thomas F. PawlickFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams)...

We live in a world saturated by futures. Our lives are constructed around ideas and images about the future that are as full and as flawed as our understandings of the past. This book is a conceptual toolkit for thinking about the forms and functions...

In this unique, enlightening monograph, Toivo Koivukoski explores the circumstances that have led modern society to use the concept of progress as a surrogate cosmology that gives individuals a sense of place and purpose. By linking various historical...

In a unique volume, Contested Futures brings together a group of scholars to examine the relationships between social action and the future. Rather than speculating upon what the future might bring, the volume interrogates the metaphors and practices...