THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD: Humanity in the Planetary Civilization

What does it mean to be human when the future is being engineered for us?Written from the northern tip of Sumatra rather than from Silicon Valley, The Future of the World is a bold, wide-ranging meditation on the civilization now taking shape around us—what the author calls the Planetary Civilization. Drawing on philosophy, anthropology, the study of the future, and a scholar's long engagement wit...