What future : the year's best ideas to reclaim, reanimate & reinvent our future / edited by Torie Bosch and Roy Scranton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bosch, Torie, editor.

Scranton, Roy, 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twenty-first century--Forecasts.

Twenty-first century.

Social change--Forecasting.

Social change.

Science--Forecasting.

Science.

Technological forecasting.

Genre:

Essays.

Forecasts.

Physical Description:

295 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

2017 edition.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : The Unnamed Press, [2017]

Summary:

" ... The pieces we've brought together here in What Future are some of the best, most interesting, and most prophetic essays and articles we've found about the future : what it might look like, how we might think about it, and what it might mean. We limited our selection to work published in 2016, with a few exceptions, and tried to balance the mix to address some of the most salient issues we see facing human civilization and American culture over the short-to-middle-term horizon."--Page 13

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Our Generation Ships Will Sink / Kim Stanley Robinson

My Life on (Simulated) Mars / Sheyna Gifford

Genetic Engineering to Clash with Evolution / Brooke Borel

The Virtual World in a Real Body / Michael W. Clune

The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain

-and Almost Lost His Mind / Daniel Engber

Our Automated Future / Elizabeth Kolbert

Let Them Drink Blood / A. M. Gittlitz

Black Americans and Encryption: The Stakes Are Higher than Apple v. FBI / Malkia Cyril

Policing the Future: In the Aftermath of Ferguson, St. Louis Cops Embrace Crime-Predicting Software / Maurice Chammah

Donald Trump Ushers in the Anti-Future Age / Hal Niedzviecki

The Battle for the Great Apes: Inside the Fight for Non-Human Rights / George Johnson

One Swede Will Kill Cash Forever

-Unless His Foe Saves It from Extinction / Mallory Pickett

The One-Armed Robot That Will Look After Me Until I Die / Geoff Watts

Selfless Devotion / Janna Avner

What Would Self-Driving Cars Mean for Women in Saudi Arabia? / Sarah Aziza

Fear of a Feminist Future / Laurie Penny

The Disturbing Science Behind Subconscious Gender Bias / Shoshana Kordova

Recalculating the Climate Math / Bill McKibben

The Future Consumed: The Curse of Consumption Will Save the World, If Consumers Don't Eat It First / David Biello

Can Wind and Solar Fuel Africa's Future? / Erica Gies

Anthropocene City: Houston as Hyperobject (or, When the Next Hurricane Hits Texas) / Roy Scranton.

Contains:

Robinson, Kim Stanley. Our generation ships will sink.

Gifford, Sheyna. My life on (simulated) Mars.

Borel, Brooke. Genetic engineering to clash with evolution.

Clune, Michael W. Virtual world in a real body.

Engber, Daniel. Neurologist who hacked his brain--and almost lost his mind.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. Our automated future.

Gittlitz, A. M. Let them drink blood.

Cyril, Malkia. Black Americans and encryption : the stakes are higher than Apple v. FBI.

Chammah, Maurice. Policing the future : in the aftermath of Ferguson, St. Louis Cops embrace crime-predicting software.

Niedzviecki, Hal, 1971- Donald Trump ushers in the anti-future age.

Johnson, George, 1952 January 20- Battle for the great apes : inside the fight for non-human rights.

Pickett, Mallory. One Swede will kill cash forever--unless his foe saves it from extinction.

Watts, Geoff. One-armed robot that will look after me until I die.

Avner, Janna. Selfless devotion.

Aziza, Sarah. What would self-driving cars mean for women in Saudi Arabia.

Penny, Laurie. Fear of feminist future.

Kordova, Shoshana. Disturbing science behind subconscious gender bias.

Scranton, Roy, 1976- Recalculating the climate (or, when the next hurricane hits Texas)

VanderMeer, Jeff. Haunting in the anthropocene : an initial exploration.

ISBN:

1944700455

9781944700454

OCLC:

981161442

Publisher Number:

99992031354