An Optimist's Tour of the Future
(Sprache: Englisch)
One curious man's journey to find out 'what's next?'
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One curious man's journey to find out 'what's next?'
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Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanists (they intend to live forever), to Boston where he confronts a robot with mood swings, to an underwater cabinet meeting in the Indian Ocean, and Australia to question the Outback's smartest farmer. He clambers around space planes in the Mojave desert, gets to grips with the potential of nanotechnology, delves deep into the possibilities of biotech, sees an energy renaissance on a printer, a revolution in communications, has his genome profiled, and glimpses the next stage of human evolution ... and tries to make sense of what's in store. Insightful and often very funny, An Optimist's Tour of the Future is a book that tracks one curious man's journey to find out what's in store.
Autoren-Porträt von Mark Stevenson
'Reluctant Futurist' Mark Stevenson is a strategic advisor to governments, investors, NGOs and corporates and co-founder of Carbon Removals company CUR8.Though branded a 'futurist' by others Mark is more, as one client puts it, 'Chief Annoying Question Asker'. He helps organisations change the way they feel, think, invest and operate in order to answer the intertwined questions the future is asking us - on climate change, inequality, the retreat of democracy and the failures of the markets to price risk properly (to name just four).
His two bestselling books, An Optimist's Tour of the Future and the award-winning We Do Things Differently map out some existing and proven solutions to our current dilemmas.
He is Global Ambassador for environmental law firm Client Earth and former strategic advisor on peace, national security and climate change to the UK Ministry of Defence.
He also enjoys a successful side career as a comedy writer and songwriter, which he regards as essential for maintaining key skills needed in his strategy work. 'The brain does the PR for what the heart has already decided, if you can't speak to the heart any systems change is dead in the water'.
His hit podcast with comedian Jon Richardson and fellow systems change advocate Ed Gillespie is available on all major platforms.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mark Stevenson
- 2012, 256 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 2,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 1846683572
- ISBN-13: 9781846683572
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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"'Certainly one of the most interesting science books I've read for a long time.' (New Statesman) 'A rollicking roller-coaster ride around the cutting edge of science with dozens of laugh-out-loud moments' (Scotsman) '[A] grand tour of charismatic technologies and their prophets... Stevenson bags an impressive list of interviewees' (Financial Times) 'Infectiously enthusiastic' (Sunday Times)"
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Certainly one of the most interesting science books I've read for a long time. New Statesman
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