Future Studies

Science history is chock full of world-changing innovations that initially faced skepticism and ridicule for being too unconventional. We take a look at the latest out-of-the-box ideas to tackle today’s biggest challenges, including so-called sponge cities designed to combat flooding....

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications....

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....

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The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future? Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before corona) and AC (after corona)....

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....

Sixty years ago, legendary economist John Kenneth Galbraith issued a grim prophecy that the global elite would harness the potential of the burgeoning computing revolution to accumulate even more wealth and power....

These are the end times. We hear this sentiment in one way or another from various sources, from the fundamentalist preacher, to the scientist warning us of climate change. This is a time of economic uncertainty, political oppression, and cultural unraveling....

Human Spaceflight lays out a provocative future for human space travel....

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....

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....

Have you ever wondered how humans will colonize space? This audiobook addresses the major players in the private space industry, NASA's role in privatized space tourism, and much more....

It's the 21st century, and let's be honest: things are a little disappointing. Despite every World's Fair prediction and the ads in comic books, we are not living the future we were promised....

An increasingly connected and technologically-advanced world presents exponential opportunities. The Communication Wave and Digital Wave brought great advances, but to take the next step forward, open-minded thinkers need to ride the Transparency Wave.....

In this book, we will be looking at how technology has progressed through the years to get a glimpse of the future. Here, you will learn how humans lived their lives in the past and how technology has influenced that way of life and transformed it into what it is today....

Future Science features 19 young scientists, most of whom are presenting their innovative work and ideas to a general audience for the first time....

What will the world look like in 2020? Paul Cornish and Kingsley Donaldson guide us through a maze of global uncertainty in this fascinating look at the future....

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

From the global impact of the coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bush fires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed and the ways in which it will continue to change over the next hundred years....

The COVID-19 pandemic was just the first of many disruptions to come. Before year 2030, ecological thresholds will be surpassed, humanity will be fully connected via the internet, social inequalities will reach critical mass, and exponential technologies will become truly “smart”....