| Title | : | Futurevision: Scenarios for the world in 2040 |
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| ISBN | : | 1922070092 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781922070098 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 330 |
| Publication | : | First published October 24, 2012 |
Will relentless consumerism end up destroying our planet? Or can science and technology allow us to innovate our way out of trouble? Perhaps a greater social consciousness and community-based living will take over — or, conversely, the competition for limited resources may result in everyone fighting for themselves.
Drawing on these four possible futures, Richard Watson and Oliver Freeman invite us to examine critically the risks and opportunities to come. They discuss the key factors, trends, critical uncertainties, and wildcards that will shape the future, guiding us to a greater awareness of long-term problems and possible solutions — and empowering us not only to adapt to what might happen, but also to shape our future and to generate change.
It’s impossible to know for certain what the future holds, but we can remove some of its surprises by engaging in a meaningful debate about the choices we face now. This book shows us how.
Futurevision: Scenarios for the world in 2040 Reviews
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I came to this book with George Friedman’s “The Next 100 Years” and “The Next Decade” in mind. For those with the same idea, don’t. These authors have quite a different idea in mind. The focus of the book is really on how they built their future scenarios. Only about a quarter of the book is dedicated to present their scenarios in broad sketches, the rest deals with what to consider and how to attempt to account for as many variables as possible. That approach was much less interesting to me simply because I have no intention of building future scenarios and was actually looking for an interesting and informed speculation of what the future could bring that would hopefully put things in my radar that currently aren’t. I can’t imagine that I wasn’t the only reader with that approach in mind. So I would recommend this book only to those curious as to the nuts and bolts of how to build future scenarios.
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An excellent look at what scenarios are, and how to use them.
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Too much talk around, and rarely gets to the point.
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Wanted this to be better than it was.
