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1984
by George Orwell

ISBN 1595404325 (1-59540-432-5)
Softcover, 1st World Library

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Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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1984
by Thomas Pynchon, Erich Fromm, George Orwell

ISBN 0452284236 (0-452-28423-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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2081
by Gerard K. O'Neill

ISBN 0671242571 (0-671-24257-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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After Man: A Zoology of the Future
by Dougal Dixon

ISBN 0312011628 (0-312-01162-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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What exotic creatures does tomorrow hold? Dougal Dixon's classic work of speculative anthropology blends science and fantasy in a stunning zoology of the future.
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence
by Ray Kurzweil

ISBN 0140282025 (0-14-028202-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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How much do we humans enjoy our current status as the most intelligent beings on earth? Enough to try to stop our own inventions from surpassing us in smarts? If so, we'd better pull the plug right now, because if Ray Kurzweil is right we've only got until about 2020 before computers outpace the human brain in computational power. Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of The Age of Intelligent Machines, shows that technological evolution moves at an exponential pace. Further, he asserts, in a sort of swirling postulate, time speeds up as order increases, and vice versa. He calls this the "Law of Time and Chaos," and it means that although entropy is slowing the stream of time down for the universe overall, and thus vastly increasing the amount of time between major events, in the eddy of technological evolution the exact opposite is happening, and events will soon be coming faster and more furiously. This means that we'd better figure out how to deal with conscious machines as soon as possible--they'll soon not only be able to beat us at chess, but also likely demand civil rights, and might at last realize the very human dream of immortality.
The Age of Spiritual Machines is compelling and accessible, and not necessarily best read from front to back--it's less heavily historical if you jump around (Kurzweil encourages this). Much of the content of the book lays the groundwork to justify Kurzweil's timeline, providing an engaging primer on the philosophical and technological ideas behind the study of consciousness. Instead of being a gee-whiz futurist manifesto, Spiritual Machines reads like a history of the future, without too much science fiction dystopianism. Instead, Kurzweil shows us the logical outgrowths of current trends, with all their attendant possibilities. This is the book we'll turn to when our computers first say "hello." --Therese Littleton [via]
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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley, Aaron Tillman

ISBN 0791070492 (0-7910-7049-2)
Hardcover, Facts on File

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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791040844 (0-7910-4084-4)
Softcover, Chelsea House Pub

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The Art of the Long View
by Peter Schwartz

ISBN 0471977853 (0-471-97785-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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The Art of the Long View: Paths to Strategic Insight for Yourself and Your Company
by Peter Schwartz

ISBN 0385267320 (0-385-26732-0)
Softcover, Doubleday

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Using the techniques Peter Schwartz presents for the first time in The Art of the Long View, can begin to chart the course of their own future or their company's, not with hard numbers, but with intangibles: belief in the company, their own hopes and fears, and their reaction to events. Among Schwartz' clients are the White House, Disney, Nissan, the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange. Author lecture tour. National business media. [via]
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Being Digital
by Nicholas Negroponte, Marty Asher

ISBN 0679762906 (0-679-76290-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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As the founder of MIT's Media Lab and a popular columnist for Wired, Nicholas Negroponte has amassed a following of dedicated readers. Negroponte's fans will want to get a copy of Being Digital, which is an edited version of the 18 articles he wrote for Wired about "being digital."
Negroponte's text is mostly a history of media technology rather than a set of predictions for future technologies. In the beginning, he describes the evolution of CD-ROMs, multimedia, hypermedia, HDTV (high-definition television), and more. The section on interfaces is informative, offering an up-to-date history on visual interfaces, graphics, virtual reality (VR), holograms, teleconferencing hardware, the mouse and touch-sensitive interfaces, and speech recognition.
In the last chapter and the epilogue, Negroponte offers visionary insight on what "being digital" means for our future. Negroponte praises computers for their educational value but recognizes certain dangers of technological advances, such as increased software and data piracy and huge shifts in our job market that will require workers to transfer their skills to the digital medium. Overall, Being Digital provides an informative history of the rise of technology and some interesting predictions for its future. [via]
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

ISBN 156000522X (1-56000-522-X)
Hardcover, Transaction Pub Large Print

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"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." -Chicago Tribune
Aldous Huxley is rightly considered a prophetic genius and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century, and Brave New World is his masterpiece. From the author of The Doors of Perception, Island, and countless other works of fiction, non-fiction, philosophy, and poetry, comes this powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations. Brave New World remains absolutely relevant to this day as both a cautionary dystopian tale in the vein of the George Orwell classic 1984, and as thought-provoking, thoroughly satisfying entertainment.
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Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave
by Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler, Newt Gingrich

ISBN 1570362238 (1-57036-223-8)
Softcover, Turner Publishing, Incorporated

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Publisher: Turner Publishing, Incorporated Publication date: 2/15/1995 Edition description: 1st ed Edition number: 1 Pages: 112 Product dimensions: 5.52 (w) x 8.23 (h) x 0.38 (d) [via]
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Engines of Creation
by K. Eric Drexler

ISBN 1872180469 (1-872180-46-9)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate

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This brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter. Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developments for medicine, the economy, and the environment, and makes astounding yet well-founded projections for the future. [via]
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Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough To Live Forever
by Ray Kurzweil, Terry Grossman

ISBN 1579549543 (1-57954-954-3)
Hardcover, Rodale Pr

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The idea behind Kurzweil and Grossman's Fantastic Voyage is that if you can make it through the next 50 years, you might become immortal. How will that be possible? Through some rather science fictional steps, it turns out, including taking advantage of the latest in biotechnological breakthroughs and not-yet-invented nanotechnology. Is all this longing for immortality driven by an obsession with youth or a fear of death? Readers can judge for themselves, as both Kurzweil and Grossman reveal the personal histories that led them to develop this plan. Fantastic Voyage is written in an easy-to-understand tone, with lots of sidebars giving examples of what the future holds for medicine and health. Whether or not you think that science will find a way to keep our bodies or our disembodied minds alive forever, this book is full of diet and lifestyle tips. For instance, the authors suggest carefully controlling the body's overall pH at an alkaline level, meditating, eating a diet composed mostly of vegetables and protein, and taking loads of supplements (Kurzweil downs about 250 pills each day). The dietary options presented here will mostly only be practical for people whose income levels can support buying organic produce, fresh fish and meat, and top-shelf supplements. The authors cavalierly state that we are living in a "time of abundance," but it seems likely that most who are able to follow this regimen will be Americans of a fairly high socioeconomic class. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress
by Virginia Postrel

ISBN 0684862697 (0-684-86269-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Virginia Postrel smashes conventional political boundaries in this libertarian manifesto. World-views should be defined not by how they view the present, she says, but the future. Do they aim to control it, as many conservative reactionaries and liberal planners want to do? Or do they embrace it, even though they can't know what lies ahead? Postrel (editor of Reason magazine) firmly places herself in this latter category--the dynamists, she calls her happy tribe--and urges the rest of us to sign up. The future of economic prosperity, technological progress, and cultural innovation depends upon embracing principles of choice and competition. The downside of this philosophy, Postrel readily notes, is that it doesn't allow us to manage tomorrow by acting today. And that's exactly the point: we shouldn't want to. A future constructed by an infinite number of individual decisions, made privately, is one she believes we should encourage. The Future and Its Enemies is at once intellectually sweeping and reader-friendly; it has the potential to join a pantheon of books about freedom that includes works by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst
by Steve Talbott

ISBN 1565920856 (1-56592-085-6)
Hardcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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Future Is Wild
by Dougal Dixon, John Adams

ISBN 1552977242 (1-55297-724-2)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd

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Imagine the world in the far distant future -- a world without humans, a world so different from ours that, until now, it's been impossible to consider.
What creatures will roam the land or swim in the oceans? The Future Is Wild brings to life a world of amazing creatures and sets them loose in our imagination.
Based on fundamental biological and evolutionary principles, they could -- and may yet -- exist:

5 million years from now.
It cannot fly, but the carakiller is the Amazon's swiftest predator.
100 million years from now.
Toratons, descendents of tortoises, are the biggest animals ever to walk the Earth.
200 million years from now.
Warrior terabytes disable victims by spraying chemicals at them.
In five million years, Northern Europe and North America are covered by ice sheets. Only the hardiest, most adaptable species are able to survive. In 100 million years, Earth is a global hothouse, brimming with life. Another 100 million years and Earth is a single, huge supercontinent and one vast, warm ocean.
Using state-of-the-art computer animation, The Future Is Wild is able to transform the imagination into actual images, creating a living world of strange creatures and extraordinary habitats.
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Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler

ISBN 0553277375 (0-553-27737-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, family, and society. [via]
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George Orwell Complete & Unabridged

ISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub

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George Orwell's 1984
by Ralph A. Ranald

ISBN 067100719X (0-671-00719-X)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited

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Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge
by Edward Regis

ISBN 0201567512 (0-201-56751-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books

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The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps
by Marshall T. Savage

ISBN 0316771635 (0-316-77163-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy-In 8 Easy Steps
by Marshall T. Savage, Keith Spangle

ISBN 0963391496 (0-9633914-9-6)
Softcover, Empyrean Pub

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Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence
by Hans Moravec

ISBN 0674576187 (0-674-57618-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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A dizzying display of intellect and wild imaginings by Moravec, a world-class roboticist who has himself developed clever beasts . . . Undeniably, Moravec comes across as a highly knowledgeable and creative talent-which is just what the field needs" - Kirkus Reviews. [via]
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Mundo Feliz
by Aldous Huxley

ISBN 8497594258 (84-9759-425-8)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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Un mundo feliz es posiblemente la novela mas leida de Huxley, y su influencia es evidente tanto en buena parte de la novela de ciencia ficcion de calidad como en las novelas filosoficas. Presenta un mundo en el que el Estado controla hasta el mas minimo detalle de la vida de los individuos, a los que mantiene en una ignorancia, producto de un depurado lavado de cerebro. Mas tarde el autor escribiria Nueva visita a un mundo feliz, donde analizaria lo que habia escrito anos antes y sacaria conclusiones muy distintas sobre el destino de la humanidad. [via]
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The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century
by John Brockman

ISBN 0375713425 (0-375-71342-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

ISBN 0679417397 (0-679-41739-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism
by Irving Howe

ISBN 0155658115 (0-15-565811-5)
Softcover, Cengage Learning

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Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century
by Alvin Toffler

ISBN 0553292153 (0-553-29215-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Toffler argues that while headlines focus on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant shifts are taking place in our everyday world--supermarkets, hospitals, banks, television, and politics. As old antagonisms fade, Toffler identifies where the next, far more important world division will arise . . . between the "fast" and the "slow." "Thought-provoking on every page."--Newsday. HC: Bantam. [via]
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Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
by Arthur Clarke

ISBN 0446321079 (0-446-32107-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
by Hans P. Moravec

ISBN 0195136306 (0-19-513630-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This is science fiction without the fiction--and more mind-bending than anything you ever saw on Star Trek. Moravec, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, envisions a not-too-distant future in which robots of superhuman intelligence have picked up the evolutionary baton from their human creators and headed out into space to colonize the universe.
This isn't anything that a million sci-fi paperbacks haven't already envisioned. The difference lies in Moravec's practical-minded mapping of the technological, economic, and social steps that could lead to that vision. Starting with the modest accomplishments of contemporary robotics research, he projects a likely course for the next 40 years of robot development, predicting the rise of superintelligent, creative, emotionally complex cyberbeings and the end of human labor by the middle of the next century.
After Moravec makes this point, his projections start to get really wild: robot corporations will take up residence in outer space with rogue cyborgs; planet-size robots will cruise the solar system looking for smaller bots to assimilate; and eventually every atom in the entire galaxy will be transformed into data-storage space, with a full-scale simulation of human civilization running as a subroutine somewhere.
His last chapter, which mingles the latest in avant-garde physics with hints of Borges's most intoxicating metaphysical conceits, is a breathtaking piece of hallucinatory eschatology. Moravec concludes by reminding us that even the wildest long-range predictions about the technological future never turn out to be as unhinged as they should have been. --Julian Dibbell [via]
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil

ISBN 0143037889 (0-14-303788-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and most controversial advocates for the role of machines in the future of humanity. In his latest book, he envisions an eventthe "singularity"in which technological change becomes so rapid and so profound that our bodies and brains will merge with our machines.
The Singularity Is Near portrays what life will be like after this event a human- machine civilization where our experiences shift from real reality to virtual reality and where our intelligence becomes nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful. In practical terms, this means that human aging and pollution will be reversed; world hunger will be solved; our bodies and environment transformed by nanotechnology to overcome the limitations of biology, including death; and virtually any physical product can be created from information alone. The Singularity Is Near also considers the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes, and is certain to be one of the most widely discussed and provocative books of 2005. [via]
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Third Wave
by Alvin Toffler

ISBN 0553246984 (0-553-24698-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years
by Bruce Sterling

ISBN 0812969766 (0-8129-6976-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isnt just talking about machines and biochemistry: what he really cares about are the interstices of technology with culture and human history. -Kurt Andersen, author of Turn of the Century

Visionary author Bruce Sterling views the future like no other writer. In his first nonfiction book since his classic The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling describes the world our children might be living in over the next fifty years and what to expect next in culture, geopolitics, and business.

Time calls Bruce Sterling one of Americas best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre. Tomorrow Now is, as Sterling wryly describes it, an ambitious, sprawling effort in thundering futurist punditry, in the pulsing vein of the futurists Ive read and admired over the years: H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Alvin Toffler; Lewis Mumford, Reyner Banham, Peter Drucker, and Michael Dertouzos. This book asks the future two questions: What does it mean? and How does it feel?

Taking a cue from one of William Shakespeares greatest soliloquies, Sterling devotes one chapter to each of the seven stages of humanity: birth, school, love, war, politics, business, and old age. As our children progress through Sterlings Shakespearean life cycle, they will encounter new products; new weapons; new crimes; new moral conundrums, such as cloning and genetic alteration; and new political movements, which will augur the way wars of the future will be fought.

Here are some of the authors predictions:

" Human clone babies will grow into the bitterest and surliest adolescents ever.
" Microbes will be more important than the family farm.
" Consumer items will look more and more like cuddly, squeezable pets.
" Tomorrows kids will learn more from randomly clicking the Internet than they ever will from their textbooks.
" Enemy governments will be nice to you and will badly want your tourist money, but global outlaws will scheme to kill you, loudly and publicly, on their Jihad TVs.
" The future of politics is blandness punctuated with insanity.
The future of activism belongs to a sophisticated, urbane global network that can make moneythe Disney World version of Al Qaeda.

Tomorrow Now will change the way you think about the future and our place in it.

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Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
by Bruce Sterling

ISBN 0679463224 (0-679-46322-4)
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The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom
by David Brin

ISBN 0738201448 (0-7382-0144-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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In New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell that information to anyone willing to pay. Host sites on the World Wide Web record every page you view, and "smart" toll roads know where you drive. Every day, new technology nibbles at our privacy.Does that make you nervous? David Brin is worried, but not just about privacy. He fears that society will overreact to these technologies by restricting the flow of information, frantically enforcing a reign of secrecy. Such measures, he warns, won't really preserve our privacy. Governments, the wealthy, criminals, and the techno-elite will still find ways to watch us. But we'll have fewer ways to watch them. We'll lose the key to a free society: accountability.The Transparent Society is a call for "reciprocal transparency." If police cameras watch us, shouldn't we be able to watch police stations? If credit bureaus sell our data, shouldn't we know who buys it? Rather than cling to an illusion of anonymity-a historical anomaly, given our origins in close-knit villages-we should focus on guarding the most important forms of privacy and preserving mutual accountability. The biggest threat to our freedom, Brin warns, is that surveillance technology will be used by too few people, now by too many.A society of glass houses may seem too fragile. Fearing technology-aided crime, governments seek to restrict online anonymity; fearing technology-aided tyranny, citizens call for encrypting all data. Brins shows how, contrary to both approaches, windows offer us much better protection than walls; after all, the strongest deterrent against snooping has always been the fear of being spotted. Furthermore, Brin argues, Western culture now encourages eccentricity-we're programmed to rebel! That gives our society a natural protection against error and wrong-doing, like a body's immune system. [via]
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Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
by Michio Kaku

ISBN 0385484992 (0-385-48499-2)
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Take it easy: that's Michio Kaku's motto. Given the extraordinary advances science has thrown up in time for the millennium, the only way you could possibly fit them into a single volume is by a correspondingly massive simplification.
Subtitled How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond, Visions assumes that, by and large, scientists get to do whatever they like, that all technologies are consumer technologies, and that consumers welcome anything and everything science throws at them. Kaku gets away with this frankly dodgy strategy by dint of sheer hard work. He has based his predictions on interviews with more than 150 renowned working scientists; he integrates these interviews with a huge body of original journalistic material; and, above all, he roots that mass of information on an entirely reasonable model of what the purpose of science will be in the third millennium. Up until now, science has expended its efforts on decoding most of the fundamental natural processes--"the dance," as Kaku puts it, of elementary particles deep inside stars and the rhythms of DNA molecules coiling and uncoiling within our bodies. Science's task now, Kaku believes, is to cross-pollinate advances thrown up by the study of matter, biology, and mind--modern science's three main theaters of endeavor. "We are now making the transition from amateur chess players to grand masters," he writes, "from observers to choreographers of nature." Then again, he also believes that "the Internet ... will eventually become a 'Magic Mirror' that appears in fairy tales, able to speak with the wisdom of the human race." Kaku, in short, deserves a good slapping--but he also deserves to be read. --Simon Ings, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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by Michio Kaku

ISBN 0385484984 (0-385-48498-4)
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Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century
by Michio Kaku

ISBN 0198500866 (0-19-850086-6)
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As the twentieth century draws to a close, the fundamental elements of matter and life - the particles of the atom and the decoding of the nucleus of the cell - have been discovered, and one of the great chapters of scientific discovery has drawn to a close.
In many ways, however, this is but a preface to an even more far-reaching scientific revolution that will take place in the next century, as we make the transition from unravelling the secrets of nature to becoming the masters of nature.
In VISIONS, physicist Michio Kaku looks to this future and guides the reader through the science of the next century. What makes his vision of this future so compelling is that it is based on the pioneering efforts by theoreticians and the groundbreaking research that is going on in the labs right now. Science, for all its breathtaking change, evolves slowly. Dr. Kaku asserts that, using today's knowledge, we can confidently predict the direction of science through the next century.
In the first section of the book, he explores the evolution and development of computers and artificial intelligence. He offers a window on how computer science will evolve after the year 2020, when the principle that has governed the industry's technological process since the 1950's, Moore's Law, reaches its limits. Next, he discusses biogenetics, the second great scientific revolution, and reveals how the completion of the decoding of the genetic structure of DNA will allow us to conquer the devastating genetic diseases that have plagued the human race throughout our history and allow us to alter and reshape our genetic inheritance. The final section of the book takes us yet further into the future, as we see how quantum physicists are perfecting new ways of harnessing the matter and energy of the Universe.
A spellbinding narrative that brings together the cutting-edge research of today's foremost scientists to explore the science of tomorrow, VISIONS is an exhilarating adventure into the future of our planet and ourselves. [via]
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Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future
by Brian Horrigan, Corn, Joseph & Horrigan, Brian, Katherine Chambers

ISBN 0801853990 (0-8018-5399-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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Enormous skyscrapers will house residents and workers who happily go "for weeks" without setting foot on the ground. Streamlined, "hurricane-proof" houses will pivot on their foundations like weather vanes. The family car will turn into an airplane so easily that "a woman can do it in five minutes." Our wars will be fought by robots. And our living room furniturewaterproof, of coursewill clean up with a squirt from the garden hose.
In Yesterday's Tomorrows Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan explore the future as Americans earlier in the last century expected it to happen. Filled with vivid color images and lively text, the book is eloquent testimony to the confidenceand, at times, the naive faithAmericans have had in science and technology. The future that emerges here, the authors conclude, is one in which technology changes, but society and politics usually do not.
The authors draw on a wide variety of sourcespopular-science magazines, science fiction, world fair exhibits, films, advertisements, and plans for things only dreamed of. From Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas of the future.
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1984
by GEORGE ORWEL

ISBN 9685270880 (968-5270-88-0)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc

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En esta novela encontramos al lider unico cuya presencia es ante todo una abstraccion, la negacion del individuo, la sustraccion de la informacion: el Gran Hermano. Es, al mismo tiempo, una advertencia y un deseo. El autor ha construido una metafora del imaginario social del siglo XX, al describir un pais carcelario, vigilado por un lugar desde donde se ve a el y a todos. [via]
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Nineteen Eighty-four
by George Orwell

ISBN 8423328651 (84-233-2865-1)
Hardcover, Ediciones Destino

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En esta novela encontramos al lider unico cuya presencia es ante todo una abstraccion, la negacion del individuo, la sustraccion de la informacion: el Gran Hermano. Es, al mismo tiempo, una advertencia y un deseo. El autor ha construido una metafora del imaginario social del siglo XX, al describir un pais carcelario, vigilado por un lugar desde donde se ve a el y a todos. [via]
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Un Mundo Feliz
by Aldous Huxley

ISBN 840142321X (84-01-42321-X)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.

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Un mundo feliz es posiblemente la novela mas leida de Huxley, y su influencia es evidente tanto en buena parte de la novela de ciencia ficcion de calidad como en las novelas filosoficas. Presenta un mundo en el que el Estado controla hasta el mas minimo detalle de la vida de los individuos, a los que mantiene en una ignorancia, producto de un depurado lavado de cerebro. Mas tarde el autor escribiria Nueva visita a un mundo feliz, donde analizaria lo que habia escrito anos antes y sacaria conclusiones muy distintas sobre el destino de la humanidad. [via]
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Un Mundo feliz/ A Happy World
by Aldous Huxley

ISBN 9706438874 (970-643-887-4)
Softcover, Selector S.A. De C.V.

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Le Meilleur Des Mondes
by Aldous Huxley

ISBN 2266113135 (2-266-11313-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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16,8x10,8x1,8cm. Poche. [via]
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