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The quickening
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Jennifer L. Osborne,Art Bell |
Predicts how human relations, business, technology, health, international tensions, and religion will be different in the millenium, and describes how society can prepare for the future. |
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The Mobile Wave
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Michael Saylor |
In the tradition of international bestsellers, Future Shock and Megatrends, Michael J. Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, brings The Mobile Wave, a ground-breaking analysis of the impact of mobile intelli… |
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AI superpowers
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Kai-Fu Lee |
The United States has long been the leader in Artificial Intelligence. But Dr. Kai-Fu Lee--one of the world's most respected experts on AI--reveals that China has caught up to the US at an astonishin… |
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Superforecasting
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Philip Tetlock,Philip E. Tetlock,Dan Gardner,Dan Gardner,Tetlock, Philip E.; Gardner, Dan |
Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terr… |
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The Singularity Is Near
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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… |
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The America syndrome
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Betsy Hartmann |
"In this thought-provoking, big-idea book, Betsy Hartmann sheds light on a pervasive but--until now--invisible theme shaping the American mindset: apocalyptic thinking, or the belief that the end of … |
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How to Create a Mind
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Ray Kurzweil |
-- How to Create a Mind Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in addressing the wor… |
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Emergent strategy
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Adrienne Maree Brown |
"Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Ch… |
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State of insecurity
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Isabell Lorey |
"After years of the welfare state, the rise of technology, combined with neoliberal governmental apparatuses, has established a new society of the precarious. In this new way of the world, productivi… |
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The fourth turning
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William Strauss,Neil Howe |
First came the postwar High, then the Awakening of the '60s and '70s, and now the Unraveling. This audacious and provocative book tells us what to expect just beyond the start of the next century. … |
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Foresight
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Deni Loveridge |
"Since the early 1990s interest in foresight has undergone one of its periodic resurgences and has led to a rapid growth in formal foresight studies backed by governments and transnational institutio… |
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