What Future

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The Year's Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent Our Future

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What Future presents a sobering exploration of the tumultuous crossroads at which contemporary culture stands. This anthology gathers impactful long-form journalism and essays from 2016, addressing critical issues like environmental crises, political upheaval, technological change, human health, and animal rights. Featuring contributions from acclaimed authors such as Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson, the collection challenges readers to imagine new realities beyond impending disasters, balancing a stark view of current problems with cautious optimism about possibilities ahead.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in thoughtful, in-depth examinations of future challenges across environmental, political, and social spheres. It will appeal to those who appreciate intellectually rigorous essays and journalism that combine caution with hope for meaningful change.

An anthology of writing that looks at the interplay between technology and our environment to imagine the future and feature the innovators creating the future

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One of The Smithsonian Magazine's Best Science Books of the Year

The future is here and, frankly, it sucks. Without doubt, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge, one in which we will have to ask ourselves what constitutes a meaningful life. We must do the hard work of imagining a different kind of reality for ourselves.

It's work that anticipates the worst but sees hope on the other side of catastrophe, or at least possibility; that presumes disaster and says, now what?

A best-of-the-year anthology, What Future is a collection of long-form journalism and essays published in 2016 that address a wide range of topics crucial to our future, from the environmental and political, to human health and animal rights, to technology and the economy.

What Future includes writing from authors Elizabeth Kolbert, Jeff VanderMeer, Bill McKibben, Kim Stanley Robinson, as well as the scientists, journalists, and philosophers who are proposing the options that lay not just ahead, but beyond, in prestigious magazines and journals such as The Atlantic and The New Yorker.

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Kirkus Reviews praises the book as "a sober, no-holds-barred view of the world that lies ahead... provocative and studded with insights." Publishers Weekly describes it as "a vital collection of forward-looking writing" with a tone that is "worried but optimistic," emphasising its intelligent and realistic approach to envisioning the future rather than utopian fantasies.

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ISBN: 9781944700454

Publisher: Phoneme

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 November 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Phoneme

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Torie Bosch
Edited by Roy Scranton

Audience: General / adult

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Weight: 250g

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Torie Bosch is the editor of Future Tense, a project of Slate, New America, and Arizona State that looks at the implications of new technologies.Roy Scranton is the author of the novel War Porn (Soho Press, 2016) and the philosophical essay Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights, 2015). He is also one of the editors of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War (Da Capo, 2013).