Future Studies

Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play....

Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in AI, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations....

From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions....

The intention in this audiobook is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by science fiction and to use this as a prism through which to view current developments in science and technology....

In How to Create a Mind, Ray Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines.

How would you like to be the center of a massive outpouring of wealth, innovation, success, and prosperity....

Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage....

Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future.

Great Britain? is a much-needed antidote to the pervading sense that Britain is going backwards rather than forwards. It is both a clear-eyed and rigorous diagnosis of the problems facing our country.

Radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to help us shape the futures we want....

In I, Human psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic offers a guide for reclaiming ourselves in a world in which most of our decisions will be made for us. To do so, we'll need to double down on what makes us so special while relying on the lost virtues of empathy, humility, and self-control....

Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction....

Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of....

This provocative work examines the geopolitical flashpoints - particularly in Europe - in which imminent future conflicts are brewing....

From one of Europe’s foremost speakers on global trends in economics, business and society comes a bold and illuminating vision of the future....

Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years—including the pandemic—to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade....

Grounded in Friedman's unmatched grasp of both historical and contemporary trends, The Next 100 Years is a compelling, realistic, and eye-opening portrait of the future....

Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced....

This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world....

In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling....

Digital technology threatens to tear free and open societies apart through polarization, inequality, and loneliness. But in the decade since the weeks-long occupation of their parliament, a diverse island of resilience has shown another way is possible.

Self-driving electric cars! Trips to the Moon and Mars! A world where fossil fuels are no longer needed! An age where humanoid robots will do the dangerous, boring jobs! Welcome to the world that Elon Musk is creating....

At important meetings in 2021 and 2022, powerful leaders from government, finance, media, and business who support the World Economic Forum’s plan for a Great Reset of capitalism launched a new “call to action” titled the “Great Narrative”....

Future Shock is about the present. Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization and illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today....

The Future of War is filled with insight and fascinating nuggets of military history and culture from one of the most brilliant military and strategic historians of his generation....