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The Necessity of Friction
Nordal Akerman
Paperback - $82.95
Development has come to mean doing away with friction so that the distance between the decision to act and the action itself is less and less (as in the currency markets and in cyberspace). What is the cost to humankind of this development? Are speed ...
Foundations of Futures Studies : Human Science for a New Era
Wendell Bell
Paperback - $62.95
Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future, make possibilities for the future more known to us, and increase human control over the future. Author We ...
Toward a New Civilization : Why We Must Tame Our Instincts to Save Our World
Arthur Blech
Hardcover - $44.95
Clock of the Long Now : Time and Responsibility
Stewart Brand
Paperback - $21.95
An important figure in the U.S. counterculture, Brand sees the inability to imagine the future in the new millennium as an unwillingness to accept responsibility for it. In this work, he tackles the question of how to make long-term thinking an integ ...
The Transparent Society : Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom
David Brin
Paperback - $27.95
A respected futurist advances an argument sure to cause debate--in a wired world, the best way to preserve our freedom will be to give up our privacy.
Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse : Contemplating the Future with Noam Chomsky, George Carlin, Deepak Chopra, Rupert Sheldrake, and Others
David Jay Brown
Hardcover - $56.95
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. ...