Future World

Future World: One Global Government, One Currency, Global Defence Forces and Uniform Taxes — The Author’s Vision presents a bold and thought-provoking exploration of how humanity might evolve toward greater unity in response to rapid technological advancement and growing global challenges. As artificial intelligence, space technology, digital economies, and medical breakthroughs reshape civilization, traditional systems of governance and cooperation are increasingly tested by conflicts, inequality, climate change, and economic instability. In this visionary work, M K Devidasan examines ...

What will planet Earth be like in 20 years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with dangers. In this powerful and sometimes terrifying work, Attali analyzes the past and pinpoints nine distinct periods of human history, each with its world center of power and prestige, and predicts what the tenth will bring by the end of this century.

Sixteen thought-provoking short tales that will make you question everything. Take a trip through alternate realities and into many possible futures. Your view of the world will never be the same again.

A Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Finalist In a near-future world on the brink of collapse, a young woman born into servitude must seize her own freedom in this glittering debut with a brilliant twist—perfect for fans of Station Eleven, Karen Thompson...

As bad as Covid-19 was, the next pandemic could be worse—but we have the tools to prepare, as revealed in this urgent, gripping warning by the New York Times bestselling authors of Deadliest Enemy. The Covid-19 pandemic was the most devastating natural event of the last century, killing more...

America 2272 - The Office of Reproductive Oversight dictates laws for women and men. In a society where babies have become a source of government income, laws designed to push up the birth rate are enacted that strip women and men of the most basic of human rights: The right to choose when to have a child, the right to choose whom to marry, and the right to raise her biological child. Logical computer programmer Jane overindulges at a graduation party, winds up pregnant, and is forced to marry a near stranger. Drama queen Angelica bets a gay guy in a bar that he couldn’t “do it with a ...

An inspiring, wise and highly practical method for discovering your true self and identifying the fulfilling career just for you. No matter where we are in our lives, be it atop the heights of achievement or just setting out on our journey, we’ve all had that moment where we’ve wondered...

He wasn’t chosen. That’s not going to stop him. Leave everything to Chance. Chance Encounter has the pedigree and the kind of military clearance that makes problems disappear. He’s the man who always has a plan. So when dimensional invaders rip open the sky and he’s skipped by the...

Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with capitalism, and points to desirable alternatives to it.

Following the catastrophes of the 21st century - the pandemics, the environmental disaster, the end of oil, the ensuing chaos - people are doing whatever they can to get by and pursuing a simpler and sometimes happier existence. In little Union Grove in upstate New York, the townspeople are preparing for Christmas. Without the consumerist shopping frenzy that dogged the holidays of the previous age, the season has become a time to focus on family and loved ones.

“All great changes are preceded by chaos.” — Deepak Chopra If you watch the news and witness the events occurring in the world today, it seems like everything is falling apart and humanity is quickly deteriorating into a state of chaos and self-destruction. But what if humanity’s future is far more beautiful than we dare to imagine? The New World of Love takes you on a powerful journey based on the profound visions of near-death experiencers and spiritual channelers—individuals who have glimpsed what lies beyond this life and bring us messages of hope, transformation, and unity. ...

Brought to you by Penguin. The million-copy bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself. *WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2021* *WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRTITING 2021* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021* *SHORTLISTED...

The Intelligent Future Framework is a practical guide for listeners who want to understand how artificial intelligence, automation, and emerging technologies are reshaping the future of work, learning, and personal growth. Written in a clear and approachable style, this book provides a roadmap for developing the skills, mindset, and adaptability needed to succeed in a rapidly evolving digital world. Listeners will explore the foundations of AI and automation while learning how these technologies can enhance productivity, support decision-making, and create new opportunities for growth.

In this eloquent challenge to the reigning wisdom on globalization, Dani Rodrik reminds us of the importance of the nation-state, arguing forcefully that when the social arrangements of democracies inevitably clash with the international demands of globalization, national priorities should take precedence. Combining history with insight, humor with good-natured critique, Rodrik’s case for a customizable globalization supported by a light frame of international rules shows the way to a balanced prosperity as we confront today’s global challenges in trade, finance, and labor markets.

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'I can't imagine reading a better book this year’ Daily Mirror Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed. But the...

Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones— they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller shows that books are one of the most important but overlooked factors in the making of our contemporary world.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our...

The Silo 42 adventure continues ... Connection, the second thriller in the Protopian Silo 42 series, begins four years after the end of book one Deception. Life underground continues but change is afoot. Ahotay, the Silo Chief and Native American grandson of the first Silo 42 Head of IT, has requested as his dying wish, that the many life-enhancing lessons learned by the Silo 42 residents be shared with other silos. This noble yet dangerous request carries great risk if discovered by Silo 1. It is up to Stewart the courageous shadow to Chief Ahotay, and his “bad-ass” senior electrical ...

The S&P 500 is the most traded index on earth. It is also the most misunderstood. Most people trade it as a proxy for "the stock market" — a number that goes up when things are good. It is something more specific than that. It is the world's risk dial: the instrument every large pool of money on the planet touches first when it decides how much risk to hold. When a fund in Amsterdam wants less equity at three in the morning, it does not sell five hundred stocks. It sells the ES. That is why it moves before the news reaches you, and why no single company — not the biggest one you can ...

Collapse happens in an instant, but the road to it is paved over decades. Martha Robinson believed a company could be run with humanity. That she could take on a Chinese corporate giant and win—fairly. That career and love could coexist. And that automation would make life better, not worse. But what if she was wrong? Could she have seen where it was all heading? That the same innovations once celebrated as progress would lead to a fractured society—one where people escape into virtual reality as universal basic income loses value by the day? But even a world like this can be livable. ...