The Future

From the former vice president and no. 1 bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything-a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.

Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, Al Gore surveys our planet's beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the tradition of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and John Naisbitt's Megatrends . In The Future, Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world:

- ever-increasing economic globalization
- the worldwide digital communications, Internet, and computer revolutions
- dramatic shifts in the balance of global political, economic, and military power
- unsustainable growth in consumption, pollution flows, and depletion of the planet's strategic resources
- genomic, biotechnology, neuroscience, and life sciences revolutions
- a radical disruption of the relationship between human beings and the earth's ecosystems

From his earliest days in public life, Al Gore has been warning us of the promise and peril of emergent truths-no matter how "inconvenient" they may seem to be. As absorbing as it is visionary, The Future is a map of the world to come, from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven all too right.

Advance praise for The Future

"This is a great book. From political policy and economics to science and the most thorny ethical issues, Al Gore has stated the human condition and the issues we face forthrightly, fearlessly, and in easily understood language-and has said what must be done. I asked myself halfway through who else could have written a book of this magnitude. The only answer I could imagine was Jefferson."-E. O. Wilson, Harvard University, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize