Showing results by publisher "----RM Alexander" in Future Studies

We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has escaped humanity's clumsy signature. The old distinctions - between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact - have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation.

After smartphones, smart TVs, smart windows, and other smart products on the horizon, smart cities were the next logical step in trying to create a better, brighter, more sustainable, and economically sound future. A relatively new term, smart cities conjures images of a cooperative, wired, prosperous utopia where citizens of all classes achieve a high quality of life. In this audiobook, we look at the qualities needed for future cities to survive and thrive.

The Book of Revelation, the Maya, Nostradamus - humans have speculated about the end since, well, the beginning. In this book, we look at several “end of the world” scenarios - or at least, things that could make human life really difficult.

Over the course of 14 billion years, humanity has gained the ability not only to imagine the future, but to design and engineer it. Entertaining and profound, Future Rising by Dr Andrew Maynard, provides a highly original perspective on our relationship with the future. Written to be easy to pick up and hard to stop listening to, Future Rising starts at the big bang and traces a pathway along the emergence of intelligent life, through what makes humans uniquely capable of creating different futures, to the profound responsibilities that this comes with.

The first person who will live to be 150 years old has already been born. The screen that we peer into will soon be within us. We could soon be taking happiness pills before breakfast. The perfect partner might need to be charged before bed. This is a new world we are walking into. And the man...

Have you ever looked at your email, then texts, then Facebook, then Twitter, then email, then Instagram, then Candy Crush, then texts, then Snapchat, then texts again, and now you’ve wasted the time you had set aside for more important things? Jedediah Bila has solved her own Obsessive...

What’s coming next for today’s workforce, and the companies behind them? For those eager and willing to adapt, the possibilities are nearly endless, says author Gerard Szatvanyi. Recent advances in technology have led to new trends, and this global transformation holds tremendous potential. Nearly every industry will be impacted, and organizations that set the right vision could benefit from breaking into new markets and creating specialized niches.

The Human Injury describes the immensity of evolutionary influence upon modern behavior. Base human compulsions activate instantly. They crowd out the thinking mind. They fight enemies that no longer exist. These ancient compulsions have reinvented. They're making the rules. The gifts of nature that once kept our ancestors alive now combine to block human arrival to sustainability.

In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion, Cohn considers what makes societies (throughout history) collapse. All Societies Die points us to the historical examples of the Byzantine empire, the collapse of Somalia, the rise of Middle Eastern terrorism, the rise of drug cartels in Latin America, and the French Revolution to explain how societal decline has common features and themes. Cohn takes us on an easily digestible journey through history. While he unveils the past, his message to us about the present is searing.

Die Corona-Krise hat uns viel Kraft und Energie gekostet. Wir befinden uns mitten in der Phase der Erschöpfung. Was wir in dieser Zeit brauchen, ist Zukunftsmut. Das Hörbuch "Nur Mut!" zeigt auf, wie wir wieder zu uns selbst finden können und woraus wir neue Inspiration und Kraft schöpfen können - und welches Denken, welche inneren Haltungen uns in der Zukunft besser leiten können. Denn nur mit optimistischen Leitbildern vor Augen lässt sich Zukunft positiv gestalten.

Was wäre, wenn die gleiche Innovationskraft, die vor 50 Jahren die Menschheit auf den Mond brachte - die große Ziele setzt und ebensolche Risiken eingeht - auch auf die Herausforderungen unserer Gegenwart angewendet würde? Wir müssen weg vom Schubladendenken, nach dem der Staat das Geld gibt und die Privatwirtschaft kreativ ist, sagt die Starökonomin Mariana Mazzucato. Stattdessen müssen wir sicherstellen, dass Unternehmen, Gesellschaft und Regierung ein gemeinsames Ziel ins Auge fassen - mit geteiltem Risiko und geteilter Belohnung!

In the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial order, imagining a future of technological liberation and unfettered prosperity. Industrial society did collapse, and a digital economy has risen to take its place, yet many are left feeling marginalized and deprived of the possibility of a better life. The Inglorious Years explores the many ways we have been let down by the rising tide of technology, showing how our new interconnectivity is not fulfilling its promise.

A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age—when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen—and explores what it could mean for our collective future. Societies all over the world are getting older, the result of the fact that we are...

Afrique 3.0 propose une voie réaliste, ambitieuse et profondément ancrée dans les réalités du continent. Porté par l’expérience d’un expert engagé dans les transformations digitales africaines, ce livre mêle récits historiques, diagnostics concrets et réflexions stratégiques. Il démontre qu’il est possible de faire beaucoup avec peu – à condition de penser frugal, d’agir agile, et de bâtir sur le capital humain africain.

In One Earth, One Humanity: A Blueprint for a United, Compassionate Future, author and global thinker Zakir Hossain invites us to re-imagine the foundations of our world—from the borders we defend to the systems we trust. With compelling clarity and visionary depth, Hossain explores how we might transition from conflict to cooperation, nationalism to planetary citizenship, and fear to shared purpose.

In fifty compelling essays, including entries on mega-tsunamis, a new ice-age, a giant meteor strike, nuclear holocaust and nanotechnology running amok, Doomsday depicts the possible scenarios of annihilation to come and assesses our chances of survival, if any.

״את הספר השולטים בעתיד ישבתי לקרוא בשעה שבע בערב והנחתי אותו בשעה שש בבוקר למחרת. הספר מרתק, שופע דוגמאות אקטואליות ולא פחות חשוב, נותן כלים להבנה של תהליכים...

في هذا الكتاب الرائد، تتعاون مؤلفة الكتب الأكثر مبيعًا تيريزا تشيونج مع عالمة الأعصاب الإدراكية جوليا موسبريدج، الحاصلة على درجة الدكتوراة ومديرة مختبر الابتكار في معهد العلوم العقلية. معًا، تكشفان عن أبحاث جديدة وثورية تُظهر أن التنبؤ بالمستقبل ممكن؛ كما تقدمان أدوات وتقنيات عملية يمكنك استخدامها لتطوير قدراتك الخاصة في التنبؤ بالمستقبل.

Wir können mehr, als wir glauben, wenn wir verstehen, wie wir denken. Unsere Welt befindet sich in einem großen Umbruchprozess. Wir müssen die Energiewende schaffen, den Klimawandel aufhalten, unsere Wirtschaft und Verwaltung digitalisieren – und gleichzeitig unsere Demokratie gegen Fake News und digitale Meinungsmanipulation verteidigen. An guten Ideen und konkreten Vorschlägen, was zu tun ist, mangelt es nicht. Auch nicht an Vorstellungen, wie eine lebenswerte Zukunft aussehen sollte. Dennoch kommen wir nicht in die Gänge.

Unser Planet ist begrenzt, aber wir müssen uns weiterentwickeln, um die Herausforderungen der Zukunft zu meistern. Anders Levermann, Leiter der Komplexitätsforschung am Potsdamer Klimainstitut, schlägt einen Weg vor, der dieses Dilemma auflöst und ganz nebenbei die Ungleichheitsexplosion in unserer Gesellschaft zähmt. Wir befinden uns am Ende des Zeitalters der Expansion – und wir brauchen eine Idee für den nächsten großen Schritt. Die Begrenztheit unserer Erde kollidiert mit der Notwendigkeit rasanter gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung.