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"Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style--thorough, yet riveting--famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old...
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"We are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future. But the complexity of modern life won't provide that: experts in forecasting are reluctant to look more than 400 days out. History doesn't repeat itself, and even genetics won't tell you everything you want to know. Tomorrow remains uncharted territory, but Heffernan demonstrates how we can forge ahead with agility. Drawing on a wide array of people and places, Uncharted traces...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 335 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm.
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English
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"One of the most stunning achievements of moral philosophy is something we take for granted: moral universalism, or the idea that every human has equal moral worth. In What We Owe the Future, Oxford philosopher William MacAskill demands that we go a step further, arguing that people not only have equal moral worth no matter where or how they live, but also no matter when they live. This idea has implications beyond the obvious (climate change) - including...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"From Ari Wallach, futurist, writer, and founder of Longpath Labs, comes a radical book on changing our mindsets from short-term, reactionary thinking to long-term, holistic thinking to becoming the ancestors our future needs"--
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Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
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x, 356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"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...
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Very short introductions volume 516
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
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xiv, 164 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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From the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. We have always yearned to know what lies ahead, whether threat or safety, scarcity or abundance. Throughout human history, our forebears tried to create certainty in the unknown, by seeking to influence outcomes with sacrifices to gods, preparing for the unexpected with advice from oracles, and by reading the stars through astrology. As scientific...
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The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"This book is a call to save ourselves and our planet by targeting the root of our inaction: extreme short-sightedness. It outlines six practical ways we can retrain our brains to save our future and create a "time rebellion"-shifting our allegiance from our generation only to all humanity, present and future"--
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
x, 562 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Exploration of extraterrestrials, dreams, sacred science, channeling your Higher Self, and Ascension. What happens when a UFO researcher suddenly comes into telepathic contact with the very beings he has been so avidly studying, after years of increasingly provocative dreams? What happens when these telepathic "readings" begin predicting the future with astonishing precision--and speaking about an incredible upcoming event in which all life in our...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"The first book of its kind, written by an acclaimed futurist, to help us not only envision what is possible in the next few months, years, decades, but to enact those plans and create the future we want Whether we want to or not, all of us think about the future constantly. These thoughts produce fear and anxiety that interfere with how we make decisions every day. We spend our days living in the past and the present with no understanding of how...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet. This is his medition on climate change and the Anthropocene, and an urgent search for fossils--industrial,...
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Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
℗2016
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes...
13) Futuropolis
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Publisher
A & W Visual Library
Pub. Date
1978
Physical Desc
[116] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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