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The Future Starts Here

Adventures in the Twenty-First Century

By (author) John Higgs
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 16th May 2019
Dimensions: w 160mm h 236mm d 38mm
Weight: 620g
ISBN-10: 1474609392
ISBN-13: 9781474609395
Barcode No: 9781474609395
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'The future hasn't happened yet. The idea that our civilisation is doomed is not established fact. It is a story we tell ourselves.' In the 1980s, we gave up on the future. When we look ahead now, we imagine economic collapse, environmental disaster and the zombie apocalypse. But what if we are wrong? What if this bleak outlook is a generational quirk that afflicted those raised in the twentieth century, but which is already beginning to pass? What if we do have a future after all? John Higgs takes us on a journey past the technological hype and headlines to discover why we shouldn't trust the predictions of science fiction, why nature is not as helpless as we assume and why purpose can never be automated. In the process, we will come to a better understanding of what lies ahead and how, despite everything - despite all the horrors and instability we face - we can build a better future.

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A magnificent book - you should read all of it -- Rufus Hound Brilliant, incisive and superbly written with humour, humanity and an intellectual honesty rarely found these days, The Future Starts Here is the best book I've read this year. An antidote to the disease and cynicism we are surrounded by, and a hymn to the future. A must read