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  The Third Wave

  by Alvin Toffler

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  Future Shock

  by Alvin Toffler

  Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society.
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  The Design of Future Things

  by Donald A. Norman

  Donald A. Norman, a popular design consultant to car manufacturers, computer companies, and other industrial and design outfits, has seen the future and is worried. In this long-awaited follow-up to The Design of Everyday Things , he points out what’s going wrong with the wave of products just coming on the market and some that are on drawing boards everywhere-from “smart” cars and... (more)
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  Powershift : Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century

  by Alvin Toffler

  Toffler argues that while headlines focus on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant shifts are taking place in our everyday world--supermarkets, hospitals, banks, television, and politics. As old antagonisms fade, Toffler identifies where the next, far more important world division will arise . . . between the "fast" and the "slow." "Thought-provoking on every page."--Newsday. HC: Bantam.
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  The Next 100 Years

  A Forecast for the 21st Century

  by George Friedman

  “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future—offering a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the... (more)
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  Future Babble

  Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe them Anyway

  by Dan Gardner

  In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would have one of the fastest-growing economies in the year 2000; in 2000, the USSR did not exist. In 1911, it was pronounced that there would be no more wars in Europe; we all know how that turned out. Face it, experts are about as accurate as... (more)
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  Future Agenda

  by Tim Jones

  Future Agenda is a unique multi-disciplinary resource that brings together some of the best minds from around the globe to address the great challenges of the next decade. It maps out the major issues, identifies and debates potential solutions and suggests the best ways forward. Future Agenda provides a platform for collective innovation at a higher level than ever before. As the world responds to accelerating... (more)
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  Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

  by Mark Hertsgaard

  For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard has investigated global warming for news outlets such as 　the New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, and the Nation . But the full truth did not hit home until he became a father and, soon thereafter,　learned that climate change had, in fact, already arrived—a century earlier than forecast—with impacts bound to worsen for decades to come. Now, Hertsgaard has written a book about how... (more)
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  The Wonderful Future That Never Was

  Flying Cars, Mail Delivery by Parachute, and Other Predictions from the Past

  by Gregory Benford

  Between 1903 and 1969, scientists and other experts made hundreds of predictions in Popular Mechanics magazine about what the future would hold. Their forecasts ranged from ruefully funny to eerily prescient and optimistically utopian. Here are the very best of them, culled from hundreds of articles, complete with the original, visually stunning retro art. They will capture the imagination of futurists in the... (more)
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  Future Files

  The 5 Trends That Will Shape the Next 50 Years

  by Richard Watson

  "Cheaper than a crystal ball and twice as fun.... Part Jules Verne, part Malcolm Gladwell, Watson has a puckish sense of humor and his book is a thought-provoking, laughter-inducing delight." -PublishersWeekly.com "Provocative, entertaining, full of surprising facts a book to help you decide whether the world is going mad or possibly becoming more intelligent." --Theodore Zeldin author of An Intimate History... (more)
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  The World Is Flat

  A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

  by Thomas L. Friedman

  When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating... (more)
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  The Singularity Is Near

  When Humans Transcend Biology

  by Ray Kurzweil

  For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines , he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and... (more)
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  Deep Future

  by Stephen Baxter

  DEEP FUTURE takes you on dazzling ride to the limits of time and space. Along the way Stephen Baxter looks at our place in the universe, considers the possibility that we are in fact alone, and wonders whether that fact gives us the right to inherit everything. He also looks at how we might strive to overcome the limitations of the physical universe and win the deepest future. Stephen Baxter has brought his... (more)
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  Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

  by Francis Fukuyama

  A decade after his now-famous pronouncement of “the end of history,” Francis Fukuyama argues that as a result of biomedical advances, we are facing the possibility of a future in which our humanity itself will be altered beyond recognition. Fukuyama sketches a brief history of man’s changing understanding of human nature: from Plato and Aristotle to the modernity’s utopians and dictators who sought to remake... (more)
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  The Futurological Congress

  From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

  by Stanisław Lem

  Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure. Translated by Michael Kandel.
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  The World Without Us

  by Alan Weisman

  A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity’s impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us. In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as... (more)
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  ID

  by Susan Greenfield

  If you've ever wondered what effect video games have on your children's minds or worried about how much private information the government and big companies know about you, ID is essential reading. Professor Susan Greenfield argues persuasively that our individuality is under the microscope as never before; now more then ever we urgently need to look at what we want for ourselves as individuals and for our future... (more)