Future Studies

The future is big right now - for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is going to happen in the future than what is happening right now....

Kate O’Neill, author of Tech Humanist and Pixels and Place, explores the ways we have already begun to solve human problems at scale, and makes the case for an approach that’s both hopeful and strategic as our best chance at a truly bright future....

AI is a present reality: we live at the threshold of an AI-dominated era. AI is more than a Technology wave. In the 21st century and beyond it is the very core source of power that fuels politics, business, and society: our minds, our work, and our homes....

Today's militaries are increasingly reliant on highly networked autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced weapons that were previously the domain of sci-fi writers. In Future Peace, Robert H. Latiff questions our overreliance on technology....

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of listeners new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing....

The international media has been predicting the 21st Century as China's century. This book explains why....

Sensationalism about AI has reached new heights, and getting a useful understanding of it has never been more important. AI will extend and accelerate thinking, delivering unprecedented abundance. But it will also require us to navigate a path of challenges....

The story starts with a little girl, a terminal diagnosis, and a ticking clock. Join the author as he searches for a cure. Along the way, you will discover the seven powerful forces of innovation that are going to change everything in your world within your lifetime....

Spirited thinkers Michael Pawlyn and Sarah Ichioka propose a bold set of regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make, and manage our buildings; infrastructure; and communities.

Architecting the Future: Unleashing the Potential of Young Tech Professionals is a comprehensive guide that explores the crucial role young professionals play in driving innovation and shaping the future of technology....

A penetrating look at near-future disruption as truly autonomous vehicles arrive....

Robots have evolved far from the typical metal, shiny, stiff-joint inventions you see in the movies. Dive in to learn all about different types of robots - from tiny ingestible robots that can save your life to autonomous insect robots that will one day swarm the skies....

The future is not what it used to be. In this volatile era, with the world changing rapidly, people are more curious than ever to know what lies ahead....

Forecast is a powerful, gracefully written, eye-opening account of this most urgent issue and how it has altered and will alter our world....

Since astronauts first ventured into space in the early 1960s, the human race has been thinking about the bigger picture. Explore the ways engineers, researchers, and astrophysicists are pushing our scientific limits every day to get us closer to living on another planet....

Don't look up. It won't help. You can't get out of the way; you can't dig a hole deep enough to hide. The end is coming, and there's nothing you can do about it....