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100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith

Posted on July 19, 2011
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Author(s): Sonia Arrison
Publisher: Basic Books (2011)
Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages
List Price: $25.99

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Humanity is on the cusp of an exciting longevity revolution. The first person to live to 150 years has probably already been born.

2009 State of the Future

Posted on September 21, 2009
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Author(s): Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, Elizabeth Florescu
Publisher: The Millennium Project (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 100 pages
List Price: $49.95

2010 State of the Future

Posted on October 4, 2010
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Author(s): Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, Elizabeth Florescu
Publisher: The Millennium Project (2010)
Binding: Perfect Paperback, 90 pages
List Price: $49.95

by Jerome C. Glenn. The Millennium Project. 2010. 90 pages plus CD-ROM. $49.95

Human society could grow vastly healthier, more peaceful, and more prosperous later this century, or it could be devastated by ecological damage and domestic strife, according to the 2010 State of the Future, by Jerome Glenn, Theodore Gordon, and Elizabeth Florescu, scholars of the futures-studies think tank Millennium Project. The report calls for decision makers to become more collaborative and responsive to change.

2030: A Day in the Life of Tomorrow’s Kids

Posted on September 16, 2010
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Author(s): Amy Zuckerman, James Daly
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 32 pages
List Price: $16.99

by Amy Zuckerman and James Daly Dutton. 2009. 32 pages. $16.99.

Kids in 2030 will still have to eat their vegetables, but genetic engineering will make those greens taste far yummier. School will still be in session, but most kids will be excited to go. What child wouldn’t look forward to teacher-led holograph tours of the pyramids of Egypt; multimedia centers where talking computers help students create dynamic video presentations; and gym classes replete with virtual-reality baseball and “smart” trampolines?

2048: Humanity’s Agreement to Live Together

Posted on September 10, 2010
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Author(s): J. Kirk Boyd
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2010)
Binding: Paperback, 192 pages
List Price: $15.95

Since World War II, world leaders have initiated serious discussions about how to turn from a past of worldwide warfare and poverty to a future of global peace and prosperity for all, notes Kirk Boyd, executive director of the nonprofit 2048 Project.

A Future-Driven Life Adventure

Posted on June 7, 2012
Memories of the Future
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Author(s): Wendell Bell
Publisher: Transaction Publishers (2011)
Binding: Hardcover, 291 pages
List Price: $44.95

From troubled youth to pioneering futures scholar, acclaimed futurist Wendell Bell takes readers through his life’s highs and lows in this candid new memoir.

A Leaderless World Order?

Posted on August 6, 2012
Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World
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Author(s): Ian Bremmer
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover (2012)
Binding: Hardcover, 240 pages
List Price: $26.95

New alliances and new cold wars are both possible as the era of superpowers is over, says policy scholar Ian Bremmer. The next few decades of geopolitics will be messy.

A New Paradigm for Older Women

Posted on August 6, 2012
Visionaries Have Wrinkles: Conversations with Wise Women Who Are Reshaping the Future
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Manufacturer: Broad Minded Publishing
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In Visionaries Have Wrinkles, an anthology on womanhood and maturity, professional futurist and gerontologist Karen Sands notes that women have more power to drive business, politics, and society than at any known time in history.

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

Posted on February 24, 2012
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Author(s): Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
Publisher: Free Press (2012)
Binding: Hardcover, 400 pages
List Price: $26.99

In Abundance: Why the Future is Better Than You Think, (Free Press, February 21) Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler offer a vision of the future that’s truly awesome in both the most traditional and modern understandings of the word; it’s as big as it as awe inspiring.

Acceleration: The Forces Driving Human Progress

Posted on February 18, 2011
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Author(s): Ronald G. Havelock
Publisher: Prometheus Books (2011)
Binding: Hardcover, 363 pages
List Price: $28.00

Acceleration: The Forces Driving Human Progress by Ronald Havelock. Prometheus. 2011. 318 pages. $18.48.