The Future: A Very Short Introduction
Jennifer M. Gidley
The Future: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer M. Gidley - UK Oxford University Press 2017 - xiii, 164 pages: Illustrations; 16 cm.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1: Three Thousand Years of Futures
2: The Future Multiplied
3: The Evolving Scholarship of Futures Studies
4: Crystal Balls, Flying Cars and Robots
5: Technotopian or Human-Centred Futures?
6: Grand Global Futures Challenges
Conclusion
References
Further Reading & websites
Appendix: Global Futures Timeline
Index
Can we ever truly influence, predict, and direct our own futures? Are there multiple futures or only one awaiting us? Jennifer Gidley explains our innate fascination with the unknown future, and considers the role of the human consciousness in embracing multiple future possibilities, and creating a world of our choices.
Explains the history of our conception of the future from the emergence of the theory of linear time in ancient Greece two and a half thousand-years ago, and looks at the way human beings have prophesied, foretold, predicted, and controlled the future
Introduces the exciting field of futures studies, spanning social, cultural, and environmental innovations, as well as technological advances, and dispels some of the common misconceptions about the field
Discusses the reality of multiple futures in a world of quantum possibility, and explores how we can become the creative agents of our desired futures
Part of the Very Short introductions series - over seven million copies sold worldwide
9780198735281
303.490905
The Future: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer M. Gidley - UK Oxford University Press 2017 - xiii, 164 pages: Illustrations; 16 cm.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1: Three Thousand Years of Futures
2: The Future Multiplied
3: The Evolving Scholarship of Futures Studies
4: Crystal Balls, Flying Cars and Robots
5: Technotopian or Human-Centred Futures?
6: Grand Global Futures Challenges
Conclusion
References
Further Reading & websites
Appendix: Global Futures Timeline
Index
Can we ever truly influence, predict, and direct our own futures? Are there multiple futures or only one awaiting us? Jennifer Gidley explains our innate fascination with the unknown future, and considers the role of the human consciousness in embracing multiple future possibilities, and creating a world of our choices.
Explains the history of our conception of the future from the emergence of the theory of linear time in ancient Greece two and a half thousand-years ago, and looks at the way human beings have prophesied, foretold, predicted, and controlled the future
Introduces the exciting field of futures studies, spanning social, cultural, and environmental innovations, as well as technological advances, and dispels some of the common misconceptions about the field
Discusses the reality of multiple futures in a world of quantum possibility, and explores how we can become the creative agents of our desired futures
Part of the Very Short introductions series - over seven million copies sold worldwide
9780198735281
303.490905