What Is the Future?
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Word Count
50,000 words, Guess
Page Count
200 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780745696577
- ISBN-100745696570
- Library of Congress Control Number2016001400
- OCLC Control Number941582900
- Better World Books9780745696577
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL29329209M
Classifications
- LCCCB161 .U77 2016
Description
Thinking about the future has become essential. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what exactly is the future? It remains a mystery perhaps the greatest mystery of all since futures are unpredictable, uncertain and often unknowable, the outcome of many known and unknown unknowns. The future can rarely be simply extrapolated from the present. In this important new book, John Urry seeks to capture many efforts that have been made to anticipate, visualise, elaborate and perform the future. This includes examining methods that have been used to model the future, from those of the RAND corporation to imagined future worlds within philosophy, literature, film, TV, and computer games. He shows that futures are often contested and saturated with different interests, especially in relation to future unborn generations. He shows how analyses of social institutions, practices and lives should be central to examining potential futures and issues as to who owns the future. The future seems to be characterised by wicked problems. There are multiple causes and solutions , long-term lock-ins and complex interdependencies, and social groups having radically different frames for understanding what is at stake. Urry explores these issues through case-studies of 3D printing and the future of manufacturing, contested mobilities in the city, and the futures of energy and climate change.--
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