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Predictions are what people mostly believe in nowadays. Everywhere you tilt your face the only thing that you get to see is some new prediction taking place and people running over to it like there could be nothing as much possible as that particular thing.
There are so many people out there who claim to know about what is going to happen next but most of them fails out at the time of results, though not all of them prove out to be really wrong e.g....
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In When Things Start to Think, Neil Gershenfeld tells the story of his Things that Think group at MIT's Media Lab, the group of innovative scientists and researchers dedicated to integrating digital technology into the fabric of our lives.
Gershenfeld offers a glimpse at the brave new post-computerized world, where microchips work for us instead of against us. He argues that we waste the potential of the microchip when we confine it to a box on our...
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Baby boomers enjoyed the most benign period in human history: fifty years of relative peace, cheap energy, plentiful grain supply, and a warming climate due to the highest solar activity for 8,000 years. The party is over-prepare for the twilight of abundance.
David Archibald reveals the grim future the world faces on its current trajectory: massive fuel shortages, the bloodiest warfare in human history, a global starvation crisis, and a rapidly...
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Looking into the face of our alleged ape ancestor, popular Christian apologist Hank Hanegraaff dissects and debunks the astonishingly weak arguments for the evolutionary theory, revealing it as nothing more than a "fairy tale for grown-ups." The author uses his own Memory Dynamics to make it easy for Christians to speak intelligently about evolution and speak persuasively about the Creator.
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Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping.
We can’t stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma.
The economy says we must always consume more: even the slightest drop in spending leads to widespread unemployment, bankruptcy, and home foreclosure.
The planet...
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The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against the complacency of "cultural necrophiliacs" and sought to annihilate the values of the past, writing that "there is no longer any beauty except the struggle. Any work of art that lacks a sense of aggression can never be a masterpiece." In the years that followed, up until his death in 1944,...
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Recently, it has looked as if the common good might be disappearing as a guiding principle of our society. In a world where nationalism is becoming more dominant (think of Donald Trump's "America First" agenda), protectionism is pursued ("une Europe qui protégé," as announced by France's President Macron), and society too is disintegrating into an increasing number of parts, the idea that we need to think about the common good seems to be progressively...
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El desarrollo científico y tecnológico de las próximas décadas podría transformar profundamente nuestras sociedades. Los robots sexuales, máquinas diseñadas para satisfacer los deseos de los humanos, incluso en sus relaciones más íntimas, ocultas o, en ocasiones, también en los actos sexuales considerados asociales o delictivos. Tendremos sexo con robots en un futuro no muy lejano, y esta vez la ciencia ficción va por detrás. Los robots...
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A fascinating look at the future, as you've never seen it. Ten years from now, will we have a tiny personal computer surgically inserted in an earlobe, capable of connecting to phone lines and the internet? Fifty years from now, will atomic-sized robots replace surgeons? A hundred years from now, instead of taking the bus, will we simply teleport to work? It all may sound like impossible science fiction, but not too long ago, so did walking on the...
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COVID-19 wrecked the plans and strategies of organizations everywhere, while injecting greater uncertainty into a world already undergoing disruptive social and technological change. Strategic Foresight can help us navigate through the recovery and beyond. Strategic Foresight is a systematic, intelligence-gathering, vision-building process that helps us manage uncertainty by discerning plausible alternative futures and applying the insights to present-day...
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A young author shares an insider's perspective on what it means to be Generation Z-and what Generation Z means for the world.
Born at the turn of the millennium, the members of Generation Z are no strangers to today's fast-paced, hyperconnected world. They were born in the Digital Age. They grew up online. Their identities, attitudes, and perspectives have all been uniquely integrated with technology. Now, as they stand at the brink of adulthood,...
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Should we welcome the end of humanity?
In this blistering book about the history of an idea, one of our leading critics draws on his dazzling range and calls our attention to a seemingly inconceivable topic that is being seriously discussed: that the end of humanity's reign on earth is imminent, and that we should welcome it. Kirsch journeys through literature, philosophy, science, and popular culture, to identify two strands of thinking: Anthropocene...
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In his latest interview collection, David Jay Brown has once again gathered some of the most interesting minds of today to consider the future of the human race, the mystery of consciousness, the evolution of technology, psychic phenomena, and more. The book includes conversations with celebrated visionaries and inspirational figures such as Ram Dass, Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra, and George Carlin. Part scientific exploration, part philosophical speculation,...
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Making Australia Slightly Better Than Average Again™ is Mark Swivel's soundbite manifesto as he embarks on a bid for the senate in 2019. Swivel argues our political class detached from the rest of us a long time ago and has no real purpose beyond preserving itself. He advocates a new populism that's about making communities worth living in and building a future where government serves us and not the market - where the test is always 'so, tell me...
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Who said that going to work daily would get ahead in life? They told us to believe that we can grind away toward financial freedom. However, that's not the case. To become free, we must work hard for income-producing assets. With inflation on the rise and a recession on the horizon, it's more important than ever to value our money and resources. To get ahead financially, we live below our means, find more work, and create passive income streams. Doing...
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Our world is more turbulent and uncertain than ever. Traditional strategic planning tools, such as forecasts and business cases, do not suffice anymore. But, how can you make future-proof decisions then? Luckily, scenario planning can give you the insights you need.
With scenarios you explore multiple possible futures that can arise from today's most pressing uncertainties. Organizations use scenario planning to learn from the future and to anticipate...
57) Dinner on Mars: The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth
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From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars-and nine billion Earthlings too.
Feeding a Martian is one of the greatest challenges in the history of agriculture. Will a Red Planet menu involve cheese and ice cream made from vats of fermented yeast? Will medicine cabinets overflow with pharmaceuticals created from engineered barley grown using...
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The political theorist and author of After Progress examines the future of U.S. dominance on the world stage in this persuasive and provocative book.
The decline and fall of America's global empire is the central feature of today's geopolitical landscape. How we respond to this reality will determine much of our future trajectory, with implications that reach far beyond the limits of one nation's borders. In Decline and Fall, John Michael Greer examines...
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We have been underselling the future. In fact, the future will be neither dystopia nor utopia (which is an actively harmful dichotomy) it will be what we do the work to make it. And the best way to the brightest future is to focus on what we CAN do, and make sure we are working to get there.
Between climate change, the impact on the future of work by intelligent automation, misinformation, and more, humanity faces several exponential changes and existential...
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Tout fout le camp est un constat de recul sur le plan civilisationnel de notre société. L'économie a matériellement apporté un essor pour un développement individuel remarquable. Les inégalités hommes-femmes ont disparu. Malgré tout cela, la créativité s'est tarie et plus rien en matière d'art ou littérature n'émerge en ce XXIe siècle. Socialement, nous régressons, copiant des mœurs qui n'ont rien à voir avec notre histoire et notre...
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