A critical treatise which predicts life and business in the 1990s, this volume argues that in order to profit more from business in the late 20th century readers must overturn traditional ideas of education, career and management. It also conveys a vision of new discoveries and freedoms. Charles Handy also wrote "Gods of Management", "Taking Stock", "The Future of Work" and "Understanding Organisations".
Archetypes of the Modern World (Archetypical Engineering, #1)
by Davide Lo Vetere
Tobacco to 1995: Consumption Moves South
Politics for the Third Millennium (Adamantine Studies on the 21st Century, #26)
by Henryk Skolimowski
No method of science or magic has been found that can predict the future with accuracy. Aside from the assertions of self-proclaimed psychics and astrologers, the only predictor of the future may be the past. Using the Toynbee-Quigley method of applying the history of past civilizations to predict the future of the current one, Douglas Caddy in Exploring America's Future discusses events and trends of the past few decades and relates them to probable future outcomes. Some analysts have looked at...
Machines will attain human levels of intelligence by the year 2040, predicts robotics expert Hans Moravec. And by 2050, they will have far surpassed us. In this mind-bending new book, Hans Moravec takes the reader on a roller coaster ride packed with such startling predictions. He tells us, for instance, that in the not-too-distant future, an army of robots will displace workers, causing massive, unprecedented unemployment. But then, says Moravec, a period of very comfortable existence w...
We are in the midst of the most dramatic cultural shift in three hundred years. This book explains why a great change is simmering in all facets of our civilization, from economics and politics to science and spirituality. Our inherited concept of a machine world - the clockwork universe - is giving way and the vision of a web world is rising to take its place. The author weaves current realities and new scientific insights into a fascinating vision of history and science progressing through up...
Taking us behind the scenes with today’s foremost researchers and pioneers, bestselling author Joel Garreau shows that we are at a turning point in history. At this moment we are engineering the next stage of human evolution. Through advances in genetic, robotic, information, and nanotechnologies, we are altering our minds, our memories, our metabolisms, our personalities, our progeny–and perhaps our very souls. Radical Evolution reveals that the powers of our comic-book superheroes already e...
Bruno Jasienski was a bilingual Polish-Russian writer who died in exile in Siberia in 1939. This volume traces his literary evolution. The introductory biographical sketch is followed by a discussion of Jasienski's contribution to Polish poetry, specifically the Futurist movement which, like its parallels in Russia and Italy, revolutionized poetic language. An analysis and evaluation of Jasienski's prose work sheds light on the relationship between politics and literature in early twentieth-cent...
"The future" plays a dominant role in everybody's lives. But for many, it is a blur and mystery, a wall of fog in which we struggle to see beyond what is immediately in front of us. By leading futurist Magnus Lindkvist, this book provides the means and tools to plan for and navigate a path into the long term to your advantage. Anyone who wants to have a better, more inspiring life in the future has to plan for it - to future-proof it. In this powerful little book, Lindkvist presents a set of pra...
This book testifies to the growing interest in the many spaces of utopia. It intends to 'map out' on utopian and science-fiction discourses some of the new and revisionist models of spatial analysis applied in Literary and Cultural Studies in recent years. The aim of the volume is to side-step the established generic binary of utopia and dystopia or science fiction and thus to open the analysis of utopian literature to new lines of inquiry. The essays collected here propose to think of utopias n...