Future Studies

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges....

William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world - and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy....

 What Is to Be Done is a long-awaited work from Jones on the challenges of modernity and what must be done to meet them....

In Value(s), one of the great economic thinkers of our time examines how economic value and social values became blurred, how we went from living in a market economy to a market society and how to rethink and rebuild before it’s too late....

Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data....

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

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....

This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time....

What would a fair and equal society look like? Imagine it is now 2025 and that years earlier, in the wake of the world financial crisis of 2008, a new post-capitalist society had been born....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku, read by Feodor Chin....

Was sind die großen Herausforderungen, vor denen die Menschheit steht? Wer sind wir und was sollen wir mit unserem Leben anfangen? Seit Jahrtausenden...

Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank describe a revolutionary new approach - public interest technology - that has the potential to transform the way governments and nonprofits around the world solve problems....

According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027....

Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self....

AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them - but only through wise regulation....

Über das letzte Jahrhundert hinweg hat sich die Menschheit Hunger, Seuchen und Kriegen erfolgreich gestellt. Aus Erfolg wird Ehrgeiz...

The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible....

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....

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the 12 technological imperatives that will shape the next 30 years and transform our lives. Much of what will happen in the next 30 years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion....

As we approach a great turning point in history when technology is poised to redefine what it means to be human, The Fourth Age offers fascinating insight into AI, robotics, and their extraordinary implications for our species....

This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling....

The founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum on how the impending technological revolution will change our lives....

The digital age we live in is as transformative as the Industrial Revolution, and Joshua Cooper Ramo explains how to survive....

From the author of Future Shock comes a striking way out of today's despair...a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials....

Um ein Land zukunftsfähig zu machen, braucht es vor allem eines: kreative Köpfe, die über das Morgen hinausdenken. Darum haben die...

From government to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low, but millions exchange cryptocurrency online, or get in the cars of unknown Uber drivers. This is the age of distributed trust....

In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world....