Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Future Studies

This kind of global movement requires global communication. Political scientist Peter Russell has heeded the demand by bringing...

Utopian thought and experimental approaches to societal organization have been rare in the last decades of planning and politics. Instead, there is a widespread belief in ecological modernization, that sustainable societies can be created within the frame of the current global capitalist world order by taking small steps such as eco-labeling, urban densification, and recycling. However, in the context of the current crisis in which resource depletion, climate change, uneven development, and economic instability are seen as interlinked, this belief is increasingly being questioned and...

"I am an assiduous reader of John Casti's books. He is a real scientific intellectual."
--Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of Fooled by Randomness

"Casti is at his best in presenting difficult philosophical ideas enthusiastically and lucidly, and in presenting everyday examples to illustrate them."
--New York Times Book Review

In his highly provocative and grippingly readable book, X-Events, author John Casti brilliantly argues that today's advanced, overly complex societies have grown highly vulnerable to...

Why do people make predictions?What was the first prediction? And why do we give them any credence whatsoever?

The first end-of-the-world prediction was recorded one second after the Big Bang, and since then it has become the daddy of all predictions with, to date, no one getting it right. Human beings have been around for about 200,000 years, with very little evolutionary difference, and yet we still haven't developed X-ray eyes or the ability to fly. This book examines the predictions that have been made since the dawn of time on a variety of subjects, from the end of the world and the...

The ultimate question is no longer "who am I" or "why am I here." These questions were answered in the earliest civilizations by philosophers and priests. Today we live in an age of such rapid advances in technology and science that the ultimate question must be rephrased: "what shall we be"? This book investigates "what" may become of human civilization, "who" is setting the agenda for a trans-humanistic civilization, and "why ."

The modern Victor Frankenstein holds a high political office, carries diplomatic immunity, and is most likely funded by the largest corporations...

In a captivating blend of history and reportage, Daniel Brook travels to a series of major metropolitan hubs that were once themselves instant cities-- St. Petersburg,...