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.

The epic story of the past, present, and future of world order, revealing how the decline of the West may be a good thing for the world. Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers—especially...

H.G. Wells sets forth an intriguing first-hand observation of Italy, France, and Britain under severe duress during the "War to End All Wars," World War I. He insightfully examines the technological effects of modern warfare, particularly the introduction of the tank and aerial bombing on human nature.

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...

This audiobook is masterfully read by the author, Mo Gawdat. One of The Sunday Times' Business Books of the Year Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a...

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...

In the late 19th century, Father Charles Arminjon, a priest from the mountains of southeastern France, assembled his flock in the town cathedral to preach a series of conferences to help them turn their thoughts away from this life's mean material affairs - and toward the next life's glorious spiritual reward. His wise and uncompromising words deepened in them the spirit of recollection that all Christians must have: the abiding conviction that heavenly aims, not temporal enthusiasms, must guide everything we think, say, and do.  

The year is 2381. The place is Urban Monad 116 of the constellation Chippitts. The population of this one-thousand storey super-structure is 800,000+ and always growing. After two centuries of ruthless, selective breeding, the essence of life is to be blessworthy and to multiply; to afford one's neighbours any type of sexual fulfilment and, above all, to avoid the evil of frustration. But, within this seemingly blissful vertical world there are individuals who feel such perverse desires as a longing for privacy, a wish to descend from the heights, to walk on earth and bask in the sunshine.

Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium. The struggle for these tiny, magical materials has razed empires, demolished civilizations, fed our greed and our ingenuity for thousands of years. But the story is not over. We are often told we now live in a weightless world of information but in fact we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. And it's getting worse. To make one bar of gold, we now have to dig 5,000 tons of earth. For every tonne of fossil fuels, we extract six tonnes of other materials - from sand to stone to wood to metal.

Hope drove them upward. Now survival on the surface will test them. Silo 42: Journey is the fourth gripping saga in the Silo 42 series. Having left the only home they've known, a determined caravan of former silo dwellers steps outside into a world no one in over a century has ever seen. They quickly discover that the surface is wilder and more dangerous than they imagined—untamed forests, vanished cities, evolved animals, and unfamiliar weather. Their food is limited. Their maps are guesswork. And the rules of survival are unlike anything they have imagined. Led by skilled scouts, ...

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 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...

Autonomous AI isn’t the future — it’s already changing how software, work, and decision-making happen. From intelligent assistants to fully autonomous systems, agentic AI is rapidly transforming industries. Yet most professionals are still trying to understand one key challenge: how do you design AI agents that can actually operate independently, reliably, and at scale?The Agentic AI Bible provides a clear and practical guide to the new generation of intelligent systems.

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 epic silo saga continues ... Silo 42: Exodus is the third installment in the Protopian Silo 42 series. Readers will be enthralled by this blend of elements in the Biblical “Exodus” story with the futurist cult classic “Mad Max.” After five years, Silo 42 has fulfilled Ahotay’s vision of improving life and sharing sustainability practices with other silos. Now a group of residents, fueled by dreams of a better life, plan to do the unthinkable. They wish to go outside -- a full breach from The Pact. A volunteer team of engineers, farmers, medical staff, mechanical experts, and ...

Sandweaver is the sequel to the twistingly enjoyable Tau Ceti, first installment of the Forgotten Colony series. Readers receive some much awaited answers to questions raised in book 1. Yet as the drama grows, so does the grand mystery of the abandoned world. Tau Ceti 4 does not want to be reclaimed. The planet itself rebels against another proposed intrusion by human colonists. Mission security officer Kenzo Jaxson is now in survival mode. He must rely on his new friend the young desert witch Ciassi, to find the answers that may enable him to return to the solar system. Old friend turned ...

Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West’s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the 20th century secured its global supremacy.

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What is Australia’s place in the new global landscape? Are we ready for our post-American future? In an era of rising danger for all, and dramatic choices for Australia, Hugh White explores how the world is changing and Australia should respond. Under Donald Trump, America's retreat from global leadership has been swift and erratic. China, Russia and India are on the move. White explains the big strategic trends driving the war in Ukraine, and why America has "lost" Asia.