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New mega trends : implications for our future lives / Sarwant Singh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singh, Sarwant.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twenty-first century--Forecasts.
- Twenty-first century.
- Technological forecasting.
- Social change--Forecasting.
- Social change.
- Social prediction.
- Social indicators.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction to the new mega trends
- Smart is the new green
- eMobility
- Innovating to Zero
- Urbanisation : from mega-cities, mega-regions, mega-corridors and mega-slums to mega opportunities
- Social trends that will model our future society
- Health, wellness and well-being
- Business model of the decade - value for many
- Connectivity and convergence
- From planes to trains - the era of high-speed rail
- New battlefields : space jam and cyber warfare
- Macro to micro.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137008084
- 1137008083
- OCLC:
- 785873650
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