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  • Contested Futures

    A Sociology of Prospective Techno-Science

    by Nik Brown, Brian Rappert ...
    In a unique volume, Contested Futures brings together a group of scholars to examine the relationships between social action and the future. Rather than speculating upon what the future might bring, the volume interrogates the metaphors and practices through which the future is mobilized as an object of present day action and agency. The book shifts the analytical gaze from looking into the future ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Immunitary Life

    A Biopolitics of Immunity

    by Nik Brown ...
    This book explores the growing intellectual interest in the politics of immunity. It argues that taking an ‘immunitary perspective’ is necessary if we are to better appreciate the body as a site of politics in the contemporary age. It explores the dynamic tensions between community and immunity, belonging and fragmentation, the social and the individual. It creates a dialogue between the social ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • Superintelligence

    Paths, Dangers, Strategies

    by Nick Bostrom ...
    The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Next Decade

    Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going

    by George Friedman ...
    The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade’s leaders.In the long view, history is seen as a series of events—but the course of those events is determined ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Who Owns the Future?

    by Jaron Lanier ...
    The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening Standard)—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy.Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? is his visionary reckoning with the most urgent economic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Coming Global Superstorm

    by Art Bell, Whitley Strieber ...
    Killer tornadoes. Violent tropical storms. Devastating temperatures. Are these just the prelude to an unprecedented environmental disaster in our near future?Two of America's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena -- Art Bell, the top-rated late-night radio talk-show host, and Whitley Strieber, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Communion and the legendary Nature's End -- have made ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • 50 Facts That Should Change the World

    by Jessica Williams ...
    In this new edition of her bestseller, Jessica Williams tests the temperature of our world and diagnoses a malaise with some shocking symptoms. Get the facts but also the human side of the story on the world?s hunger, poverty, material and emotional deprivation; its human rights abuses and unimaginable wealth; the unstoppable rise of consumerism, mental illness, the drugs trade, corruption, gun ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brief History of Tomorrow: How The Experts Usually Screw Up (Future Forecasting)

    by Jonathan Margolis ...
    A fascinating look at the future, as you’ve never seen it. Ten years from now, will we have a tiny personal computer surgically inserted in an earlobe, capable of connecting to phone lines and the internet? Fifty years from now, will atomic-sized robots replace surgeons? A hundred years from now, instead of taking the bus, will we simply teleport to work? It all may sound like impossible science ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mobilizing the Green Imagination

    An Exuberant Manifesto

    by Anthony Weston ...
    Elegant and audacious possibilities that push the boundaries of contemporary environmentalismDysfunctional cities, catastrophic climate change, ever-deepening distance from nature-today we see environmental disaster everywhere we look. In Mobilizing the Green Imagination , philosophical provocateur Anthony Weston urges us to move beyond ever more desperate attempts to "green" the status quo, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Shift Age Generations (Entering the Shift Age, eBook 4)

    by David Houle ...
    We are leaving the Information Age and transitioning into the Shift Age, a time of transformation and change that offers both great risk and incredible opportunity. In Entering the Shift Age, David Houle identifies and explains the dynamics and forces that have shaped our world and will continue to reshape our world for the next 20 years. He shows how the Shift Age means a world fully global yet ... Read more

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  • Tumbling Tide

    Population, Petroleum, and Systemic Collapse

    by Peter Goodchild ...
    Our world runs on fossil fuels. It is estimated that oil production will drop to half of the peak amount around 2030. What will happen as we reach the point where there is no practical way to get whatever is still in the ground? Fossil fuels are in decline, but recoverable reserves of metals are also becoming less plentiful. Electricity will be in decline worldwide because it is produced mainly ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Progress

    Reason and Religion at the End of the Industrial Age

    by John Michael Greer ...
    The acclaimed climate futurist examines our unquestioning faith in progress, and its limits in the face of peak oil and climate change.Since the Industrial Age began, scientific and technological progress has been nothing short of miraculous. As a result, progress itself has become the new religion of the West. Our faith in it is so complete that many of us ignore the perils of peak oil and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus