Baby boomers enjoyed the most benign period in human history: fifty years of relative peace, cheap energy, plentiful grain supply, and a warming climate due to the highest solar activity for 8,000 years.
'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for the future' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Earth Transformed and The Silk Roads'Enlightening and thrilling.
The Essential Writings of Edward Bellamy compiles the seminal works of the iconic American author, showcasing his visionary utopian ideas revolving around social equality and economic reform.
An utterly absorbing account of humans, computers, and how much they differ Dame Diane Coyle, author of Cogs and MonstersWhat does Artificial Intelligence mean for our identity?
Edward Bellamy's novel 'Looking Backward' is a powerful utopian vision of a future society in which all citizens are equal and resources are shared equitably.
Vision geht weiter als die Aufnahme optischer Reize aus der realen Welt oder die gedankliche Vorstellung von etwas Sichtbarem, das man sich vor Augen führt: Sie umfasst die innere interpretative Transformation des wie auch immer »Gesehenen« in eine gegenwartsbezogene Erscheinung oder in eine zukunftsbezogene Vorstellung.
For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days and reset our brains to allow us to live happier and more fulfilling lives.
William Guest falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production.
Inflation, Energiekrise, steigende Staatsverschuldung, sinkende Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, löchrige Außengrenzen: Der wirtschaftliche Zustand Europas wirkt düster, obwohl gerade in geopolitisch gefährlichen Zeiten ein starkes, dynamisches Europa der beste Garant für Prosperität und Sicherheit der Mitgliedstaaten ist.
*Winner of the Leadership Book of the Year 2024, as awarded by the UK's Institute of Leadership*A book that helps make sense of the megatrends playing out in the world today and, as a result, how individuals can future-proof their businesses and careers.
Since the beginning of the modern age, studies of ongoing transformations of social life, human sociality, and social relations and institutions have been at the forefront of social theory, alongside changes in politics, culture, and economy - and links between all of the above.
Dystopian States of America is a crucial resource that studies the impact of dystopian works on American society-including ways in which they reflect our deep and persistent fears about environmental calamities, authoritarian governments, invasive technologies, and human weakness.
»Man betrachte eine fiktive multiple Integralgleichung, die eine fehlerhafte Trope und ein ernster Scherz ist, und versuche dabei, sich vorzustellen, wie eine intersektionale – oder intra-aktionale – Theorie in Terrapolis aussehen könnte.
This edition contains greatest works from one of pioneers of the science fiction genre, Edward Bellamy, best known for his utopian ideas of the future.
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our problems is waning.
The Kindness Economy is a powerful new force for change in business and a growing trend that will improve everything from how we work to how we live in our homes, communities, and cities.
The Kindness Economy is a powerful new force for change in business and a growing trend that will improve everything from how we work to how we live in our homes, communities, and cities.
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which todays industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.
*Winner of the Leadership Book of the Year 2024, as awarded by the UK's Institute of Leadership*A book that helps make sense of the megatrends playing out in the world today and, as a result, how individuals can future-proof their businesses and careers.
Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Rothschild Book AwardsPlatform cooperatives reimagine a world where domestic workers can double their income by establishing their own platform-an internet where platforms such as Twitch, Twitter, and Roblox were owned by their streamers, users, and creators.
The Future of Work and Life ReimaginedIn a world where technology evolves at breakneck speed, one question remains pertinent: how will Artificial Intelligence reshape our future?
*An Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect and Sunday Times Book of the Year*Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the YearThis is the only book you need to understand our new world from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.
»Man betrachte eine fiktive multiple Integralgleichung, die eine fehlerhafte Trope und ein ernster Scherz ist, und versuche dabei, sich vorzustellen, wie eine intersektionale – oder intra-aktionale – Theorie in Terrapolis aussehen könnte.
