What Future
The Year's Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent Our Future
Los Angeles, CA : The Unnamed Press, [2017]
Format: Book
Edition: 2017 edition.
Description: 295 pages ; 23 cm
"... The pieces we've brought together here in What Future are some of the best, most interesting, and most prophetic essays and articles we've found about the future : what it might look like, how we might think about it, and what it might mean. We limited our selection to work published in 2016, with a few exceptions, and tried to balance the mix to address some of the most salient issues we see facing human civilization and American culture over the short-to-middle-term horizon."--page 13.
Other Authors:
Bosch, Torie, editor.
Scranton, Roy, 1976- editor.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Our generation ships will sink.
Gifford, Sheyna. My life on (simulated) Mars.
Borel, Brooke. Genetic engineering to clash with evolution.
Clune, Michael W. Virtual world in a real body.
Engber, Daniel. Neurologist who hacked his brain--and almost lost his mind.
Kolbert, Elizabeth. Our automated future.
Gittlitz, A.M. Let them drink blood.
Cyril, Malkia. Black Americans and encryption : the stakes are higher than Apple v. FBI.
Chammah, Maurice. Policing the future : in the aftermath of Ferguson, St. Louis Cops embrace crime-predicting software.
Niedzviecki, Hal, 1971- Donald Trump ushers in the anti-future age.
Johnson, George, 1952 January 20- Battle for the great apes : inside the fight for non-human rights.
Pickett, Mallory. One Swede will kill cash forever--unless his foe saves it from extinction.
Watts, Geoff. One-armed robot that will look after me until I die.
Avner, Janna. Selfless devotion.
Aziza, Sarah. What would self-driving cars mean for women in Saudi Arabia.
Penny, Laurie. Fear of feminist future.
Kordova, Shoshana. Disturbing science behind subconscious gender bias.
Scranton, Roy, 1976- Recalculating the climate (or, when the next hurricane hits Texas)
VanderMeer, Jeff. Haunting in the anthropocene : an initial exploration.
Bosch, Torie, editor.
Scranton, Roy, 1976- editor.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Our generation ships will sink.
Gifford, Sheyna. My life on (simulated) Mars.
Borel, Brooke. Genetic engineering to clash with evolution.
Clune, Michael W. Virtual world in a real body.
Engber, Daniel. Neurologist who hacked his brain--and almost lost his mind.
Kolbert, Elizabeth. Our automated future.
Gittlitz, A.M. Let them drink blood.
Cyril, Malkia. Black Americans and encryption : the stakes are higher than Apple v. FBI.
Chammah, Maurice. Policing the future : in the aftermath of Ferguson, St. Louis Cops embrace crime-predicting software.
Niedzviecki, Hal, 1971- Donald Trump ushers in the anti-future age.
Johnson, George, 1952 January 20- Battle for the great apes : inside the fight for non-human rights.
Pickett, Mallory. One Swede will kill cash forever--unless his foe saves it from extinction.
Watts, Geoff. One-armed robot that will look after me until I die.
Avner, Janna. Selfless devotion.
Aziza, Sarah. What would self-driving cars mean for women in Saudi Arabia.
Penny, Laurie. Fear of feminist future.
Kordova, Shoshana. Disturbing science behind subconscious gender bias.
Scranton, Roy, 1976- Recalculating the climate (or, when the next hurricane hits Texas)
VanderMeer, Jeff. Haunting in the anthropocene : an initial exploration.
Contents:
Introduction -- Our generation ships will sink / Kim Stanley Robinson -- My life on (simulated) Mars / Sheyna Gifford -- Genetic engineering to clash with evolution / Brooke Borel -- The virtual world in a real body / Michael W. Clune -- The neurologist who hacked his brain--and almost lost his mind / Daniel Engber -- Our automated future / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Let them drink blood / A.M. Gittlitz -- Black Americans and encryption : the stakes are higher than Apple v. FBI / Malkia Cyril -- Policing the future : in the aftermath of Ferguson, St. Louis Cops embrace crime-predicting software / Maurice Chammah -- Donald Trump ushers in the anti-future age / Hal Niedzviecki -- The battle for the great apes : inside the fight for non-human rights / George Johnson -- One Swede will kill cash forever--unless his foe saves it from extinction / Mallory Pickett -- The one-armed robot that will look after me until I die / Geoff Watts -- Selfless devotion / Janna Avner -- What would self-driving cars mean for women in Saudi Arabia / Sarah Aziza -- Fear of feminist future / Laurie Penny -- The disturbing science behind subconscious gender bias / Shoshana Kordova -- Recalculating the climate math / Bill McKibben -- The future consumed : the curse of consumption will save the world, if consumers don't eat it first / David Biello -- Can wind and solar fuel Africa's future ? / Erica Gies -- Anthropocene city : Houston as hyperobject (or, when the next hurricane hits Texas) / Roy Scranton -- Haunting in the anthropocene : an initial exploration / Jeff VanderMeer.
Subjects:
Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
Social change -- Forecasting.
Science -- Forecasting.
Technological forecasting.
Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
Social change -- Forecasting.
Science -- Forecasting.
Technological forecasting.
ISBN:
1944700455
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