02084    a2200229   4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001400102041000800116050002300124100002700147245009300174260004800267300007300315505007500388520135100463650002801814650001201842BJBSDDR20250625151828.0ta100625s2024    nyu           00| 0 eng d  a9781639730230  a1639730230  beng cDLC  aeng14aCB 158bA221c 20241 aAdamson, Glenn,d1972-12aA century of tomorrows : bhow imagining the future shapes the present /cGlenn Adamson.  aNew York : bBloomsbury Publishing, c2024.  a336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : billustrations ; c24 cm.0 aIntroduction
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Conclusion  a"An acclaimed cultural historian takes readers on an intellectual thrill ride through the kaleidoscopic story of futurology, a surprisingly powerful force in the modern world. For millennia, predicting the future was the province of priests and prophets, the realm of astrologers and seers. Then, in the twentieth century, futurologists emerged, claiming that data and design could make planning into a rational certainty. Over time, many of these technologists and trend forecasters amassed power as public intellectuals, even as their predictions proved less than reliable. Now, amid political and ecological crises of our own making, we drown in a cacophony of potential futures-including, possibly, no future at all. A Century of Tomorrows offers an illuminating account of how the world was transformed by the science (or is it?) of futurecasting. Beneath the chaos of competing tomorrows, Adamson reveals a hidden order: six key themes that have structured visions of what's next. Helping him to tell this story are remarkable characters, including self-proclaimed futurologists such as Buckminster Fuller and Stewart Brand, as well as an eclectic array of other visionaries who have influenced our thinking about the world ahead: Octavia Butler and Ursula LeGuin, Shulamith Firestone and Sun Ra, Marcus Garvey and Timothy Leary, and more." 4aPrediccionesxHistoria  4aFuturo