02187 a2200265 4500 BJBSDDR 20250625151828.0 ta 100625s2024 nyu 00| 0 eng d 9781639730230 1639730230 eng DLC eng CB 158 A221c 2024 Adamson, Glenn, 1972- 42614 A century of tomorrows : how imagining the future shapes the present / Glenn Adamson. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Introduction Heaven and hell Machine Garden Lab Party Flood Conclusion "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." Predicciones 1002 Historia Futuro 17150 lcc BK dpf 123817 123817 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2025-06-10 0 CB 158 A221c 2024 00000190445 2025-06-10 00:00:00 1 2025-06-10 BK