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Risk and Trust: Including or Excluding Citizens?
by Law Commission Of Canada (edt)  Publisher Comments Criticizing the idea that new technologies are independent of the society in which they are created, this up-to-date analysis explains the concept of the "risk society" and the benefits of technological change. By exploring a broad range of case studies--...
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Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years
by Bruce Sterling 
Publisher Comments Visionary author Bruce Sterling views the future like no other writer. In his first nonfiction book since his classic The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling describes the world our children might be living in over the next fifty years and what to expect next in...
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What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives
by Michael Dertouzos Publisher Comments Michael Dertouzos has been an insightful commentator and an active participant in the creation of the Information Age.Now, in What Will Be,he offers a thought-provoking and entertaining vision of the world of the next decade -- and of the next century...
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The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution
by Paul Levinson Publisher Comments Boldly extending and deepening the pathways blazed by Marshall McLuhan, Paul Levinson presents an engaging tour of how communications media have been responsible for major developments in history and for the significant changes in our personal and social...
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Cosmopolis :the hidden agenda of modernity
by Stephen Toulmin Publisher Comments In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in...
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Utopistics: Or Historical Choices of the Twenty-First Century
by Immanue Wallerstein Publisher Comments The founder of world-systems analysis "draws on his historical erudition and formidable theoretical powers to cast light on the ongoing transformation of our society" (Frances Fox Piven)....
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Identification for Prediction and Decision
by Charles F. Manski Publisher Comments This book is a full-scale exposition of Charles Manski's new methodology for analyzing empirical questions in the social sciences. He recommends that researchers first ask what can be learned from data alone, and then ask what can be learned when data...
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Critical Writings New Edition
by Filippo Marinetti Publisher Comments 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...
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Jump Time (04 Edition)
by Houston Publisher Comments Dr.Houston provides practical and potent ideas on ways to create a truly new future for ourselves, our community, and our planet....
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The Strategic Future: Anticipating Tomorrow's Crises
by Research Congressional Research Service Publisher Comments This Congressional Research Service report on selected strategic issues of interest to Congress, while emphasizing energy policy issues, also contains chapters on issue areas which interrelate-transportation, communication, water, agriculture, etc. There...
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Planning Futures: New Directions for Planning
by Allmendinger Synopsis "Planning Futures" is an up-to-date reader on planning theory, but seeks to add something more to the subject area than a mere textbook. The contributors have attempted to bridge theory and practice while putting forward new theoretical ideas....
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The Millennium Myth: The Ever-Ending Story
by Sean O'shea Publisher Comments Millennium. The ominous connotations of this word are felt throughout almost every culture and religion, yielding instant comprehension of terrors to come. Why and how did this universally recognized event find its way into our cultural consciousness...
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Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power At the Edge of the 21ST Century
by Alvin Toffler Publisher Comments Toffler argues that while headlines focus on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant shifts are taking place in our everyday world--supermarkets, hospitals, banks, television, and politics. As old antagonisms fade, Toffler identifies...
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What I Have Learned: Thinking about the Future Then and Now
by Michael Marien Publisher Comments This unique collection of thoughtful and provocative essays brings together the personal retrospectives of seventeen of the most prominent American futurists. Their reflections on how the reality of the 1980s differs from what was anticipated, and what...
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Future Wars: The World's Most Dangerous Flashpoints
by Trevor N Dupuy Publisher Comments The time is the near future... The Intifada, the Palestinian revolt, intensifies throughout the West Bank and Gaza. Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Israel. The combined air forces of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan and Egypt invade the skies over...
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The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5, 10, and 20 Years
by James Canton Publisher Comments Dr. James Canton, a renown futurist, CEO of the Institute for Global Futures, and Fortune 1000 advisor, charts a course to steer you through the volatile changes that lie 5, 10, and 20 years ahead. The Extreme Future is this generation's Future Shock...
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2099: A Eutopia
by Yorick Blumenfeld Synopsis Set in the year 2099, this is a futuristic parable, a lively narrative with serious intentions. A wise-cracking reporter from the North American bloc describes a community in the Eurobloc in despatches back home, alternated with the diary of his guide in...
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What's Next: The Experts' Guide: Predictions from 50 of America's Most Compelling People
by Jane Buckingham Publisher Comments What will the next ten years look like? In her role as founder and president of The Intelligence Group, a consulting and trend-spotting company at the forefront of predictions about the ever-elusive youth and consumer market, Jane Buckingham spends her...
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The Third Wave
by Alvin Toffler Publisher Comments Third wave keeps multidimensional perspectives Its for every human being, to read: students, teachers, Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers,sociologist, Economist,IT managers, sales personnels, and whosever can read and understand this Bible....
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What's It All About
by Richard De La Cahumiere Publisher Comments An engaging and impartial guide for readers who want to make up their own minds about some of the big questions of life, and would like to learn many of the diverse answers from philosophy, science, psychology, and Eastern and Western spiritual...
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