What is the Future?

Name: What is the Future?
Brand: Wiley-Blackwell
SKU: 9780745696539
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Szerző: Professor John Urry

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Wiley-Blackwell

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Thinking about the future has become essential. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and...

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Szerző

Professor John Urry

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2016

oldal

200

EAN

9780745696539

ISBN

9780745696539

Enbook ID

01022571

Kiadó

Wiley-Blackwell

Súly

484

Méretek

235 x 159 x 24

Teljes leírás

Thinking about the future has become essential. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what exactly is the future? It remains a mystery ? perhaps the greatest mystery of all ? since futures are unpredictable, uncertain and often unknowable, the outcome of many known and unknown unknowns. The future can rarely be simply extrapolated from the present.§§In this important new book, John Urry seeks to capture many efforts that have been made to anticipate, visualise, elaborate and perform the future. This includes examining methods that have been used to model the future, from those of the RAND corporation to imagined future worlds within philosophy, literature, film, TV, and computer games. He shows that futures are often contested and saturated with different interests, especially in relation to future unborn generations. He shows how analyses of social institutions, practices and lives should be central to examining potential futures and issues as to who owns the future.§§The future seems to be characterised by 'wicked problems'. There are multiple 'causes' and 'solutions', long-term lock-ins and complex interdependencies, and social groups having radically different frames for understanding what is at stake. Urry explores these issues through case-studies of 3D printing and the future of manufacturing, contested mobilities in the city, and the futures of energy and climate change.

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