A Brief History of the Future
Beskrivning:Predicting the future is a notoriously precarious, profitable and even dangerous business. This book takes a look at the most interesting, important and influential futurists over the years; from Delphi's virgin visionaries, to pop futurists, science fiction writers, trend gurus and evolutionary experts.
The journey starts from ancient times, the temple at Delphi, Pythia, Cassandra, Plato, by Roger Bacon, Thomas More, Leonardo da Vinci, Michel de Nostredame, Francis Bacon, Thomas Robert Malthus, Marquis de Condorcet, Louis Sebastian Mercier, Jules Verne, Edward Bellamy, Elisabeth Burgoyne Corbett, HG Wells, Joseph Schumpeter, Aldous Huxley, John Langdon-Davies, to the classics of modern futurism, as Ossip Flechtheim, Hermann Hesse, John von Newmann, Theodore von Karman, Isaac Asimov, James Surowiecki, Bernard Wolfe, Robert Jungk, Herman Kahn, Alvin Toffler, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Marshall McLuhan, Stanislaw Lem, Arthur C. Clarke and John Naisbitt.
Språk: engelska
Sidor: 322
Förlag: Robinson (2007)
Format: Häftad
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