Future City
by Marie-Ange Brayer, Frederic Migayrou, and Neil Spiller
From extraordinary houses and incredible towers, to fantasy cityscapes and inhabitable sculptures, Future City showcases the most radical and experimental architecture to have emerged in the past fifty years. Featuring hundreds of seminal and influential works by some sixty architects, this ambitious publication provides an indispensable resource for contemporary architectural and urban development and innovation in the third millennium.
A series of predictions about moral values in the years to come.
Real Virtuality (Edition Kulturwissenschaft, #37)
Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridization of the world as we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a technically assisted hybridization of both space and self, the "old" world is becoming virtualized and functionalized to a degree never experienced before. For the first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental terms of understanding what world means for us,...
Thirty-five years ago, Sir John Hackett published The Third World War, which speculated how WW3 might start and how it would be fought. Since it is now fashionable to call WW3 the Cold War, the time is right to publish a book about WW4, how it might start and most likely be fought. War planners must envision the unexpected and plan for the improbable, and the 20th century's theories of total war are going to be rendered obsolete by the 21st century's nuclear-enforced concept of limited war. In...
In this book, leading futurist and trendspotter Magnus Lindkvist takes us on a breathtaking tour of the real trends that are already happening and evolving before our very eyes.
Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit and the competence of ordinary people by the bestselling author of The Case for Working with Your Hands.Once we were drivers on the open road.Today we are more often in the back seat of an Uber.As we hurtle toward a 'self-driving' future, are we destined to become passengers in our own lives too?In Why We Drive, the philosopher and mechanic Matthew Crawford celebrates the risk, skill and freedom of driving. He reveals what w...
In 2008, the bestselling The Transition Handbook suggested a model for a community-led response to peak oil and climate change. Since then, the Transition idea has gone viral across the globe, from universities and London neighbourhoods to Italian villages and Brazilian favelas. In contrast to the ever-worsening stream of information about climate change, the economy and resource depletion, Transition focuses on solutions, on community-scale projects and on positive results. The Transition Co...
This book of essays is written out of the author's long experience with Waldorf education: as a student, a parent, a grandparent, an academic, and a consultant.The focus of these essays is on the challenge and the opportunity of building community, of forging a partnership between teachers, parents, administrative staff and friends of the school for the sake of the children and their development. It is an invitation to build community together as a seed for a new human-centered society of caring...
Die Aufgabe der Allgemeinen Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert
by Michaela Glöckler
In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives. By tracing the history of the Internet, from its founding in the 1960s to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1989, through the waves of start-ups and the rise of the big data companies to the increasing attempts to monetize almost every human activity, Keen shows how the Web has had a deeply negative effect on our cultur...
The Chicken Came First (Our National Conversation)
by William Henry Asti
Imagining Australia
by Macgregor Duncan, Andrew Leigh, David Madden, and Peter Tynan
Intelligent, far-sighted and spirited, Imagining Australia promises to find its place among the select few books to have redefined our country. Jointly written by four young Australians, Imagining Australia offers a host of exciting new ideas to transform Australia into the quintessential twenty-first century nation. Drawing upon the best policy thinking from around the world, and on their own experiences in the public, private and non-government sectors, the authors argue that Australia can tap...
While the attention of the West has been fixed on the USSR and Eastern Europe, a quieter, cumulative revolution has been taking place in Asia which may have even more profound consequences for world history. As we move towards 2000, Asia will become the dominant region of the world: economically, politically and culturally. Up until the 1990s, the West set the rules. Now, Asians are creating their own rules and will soon determine the game as well. Even Japan will be left behind as the countries...
In fourteen original essays, leading scientists and science writers cast their minds forward to 1,000,000 C.E., exploring an almost inconceivably distant future.