Future Files: a history of the next 50 years
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Prediction is a dangerous game — the future is never a straight, linear extrapolation from the present. Unexpected innovations and events will conspire to trip up the best-laid plans — but it’s better than not thinking about the future at all.
This updated and revised edition of Future Files is filled with provocative forecasts about how the world might change in the next half century. It examines emerging patterns and developments in society, technology, economy, and business, and makes educated speculations as to where they might take us.
But Future Files is not primarily about prediction. Its goal is to liberate our collective and individual imaginations so that we can see the familiar in a new light and the unfamiliar with greater clarity, and to make us all — individuals and organisations — think about where we are going and to consider whether, when we get there, it will be worth staying.
Future Files will prove indispensable to business analysts, strategists, and organisations, and provides rich and fascinating material for us all to contemplate as we rush headlong into the future.
Christopher Forest
Richard Watson spent many of his younger years drawing medieval knights, dragons, and entire comic books inspired by his love of reading. He studied illustration at Lincoln University and lives in the north of England.
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Reviews for Future Files
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Gets a lot of the economic parts right ( I suspect it had all already started to happen however, so he ' predicted ' it. The analysis still very good ) No so good on the technological.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Freakonomics with a crystal ball, Future Files by Richard Watson is a fascinating, if sometimes unsettling look into how our world will evolve in the next five decades. No segment of society is free of his long-range sights. From genetically engineered babies to self-replicating nanotechnology, Watson tells us where we're going and how we'll get there.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A thought provoking and very interesting book, theorizing about the societal and technological changes that lie ahead - eg the impact of nanotechnology, of green politics, of healthcare changes... I read it all in one gulp, and that was actually too much, this is a book to be savoured (it got a bit gimmicky and repetitive towards the end, but I feel if I had read a chapter a week, instead of the entire book in two days, it wouldn't have bothered me at all.) Always nice to start the new year with new ideas and I talked about this book to everyone. Even if you dont agree with what he supposes, there's lots of food for thought and lots of interesting discussions to be had, using his ideas as a jumping point