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Author : Sabiha Khemir
Publisher : Quartet Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780704370487
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Waiting in the Future for the Past to Come written by Sabiha Khemir and published by Quartet Books Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James McCommons
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603582592
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Waiting on a Train written by James McCommons and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.
Author : Martin Gallardo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520863061
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Future Is Waiting written by Martin Gallardo and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An astonishing read" Ariel Kozlowski, Film Director"A resum� of the most exciting technologies at the moment" Lars H, serial entrepreneur"A must read" Alex.F, mastermind groupA fascinating introduction to Climate Change, Transport, Energy, Society and Space, Robots, Artificial intelligence, Androids, Enhanced bodies, Brain-technology interfaces, cyborgs, 5G, AR, VR, MR, HR, IOT, Quantum, Bio and Optical computers, genomics, supermaterials, nano factories and the future of food.A mind blowing forecast for our near future.Are we going to live in a dystopian, steampunk, scarce, Mad-max kind of world or...Are we going to live in a utopian, futuristic, abundant, Tomorrowland kind of world?Will we be able to adapt to climate change and extreme weather events?When will all cars be electric?Will robots replace my job?What is Universal Basic Income?What are the possibilities of a Third World War?When will be landing on Mars? And beyond?Will people become cyborgs?How far are we from androids that look and behave like real humans?Will an AI eventually take control over humankind?Will most of us become addicted to virtual worlds?Are we all going to use augmented reality contact lenses and play with holograms?What is GaaS or Genetics as a Service?How many will Genetically Modified humans be in 2050?Are we going to live forever?Should I start saving for a b�nker?Is 42 still the answer to life, the universe, and everything?And the most important... is this all a hype?These questions and many others will be explored in the next chapters divided into the following parts:* Macrotrends and challenges. Analysis of the series of storms involving our climate, energy system, transportation, economy, politics, and space travel.* Man Vs Machine. Technological developments of robots and how humans are going to compete and collaborate with them.* The fight for reality. How Virtual reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Holographic media and IoT will change our daily lives.* The new era of computers: Quantum, DNA-based and Optical computers.* Genetics and Nanotechnology. How we are going to rewrite the fundamentals of life.* A roadmap for 2050This is the first edition of The Future is Waiting, based on the blog https://martin-gallardo.com/blogs/futurism Buyers of the first edition will also get access to upcoming editions with more content, interviews...Martin Gallardo works as Innovation Consultant and in-house entrepreneur for Vertical Strategy in Copenhague, turning ideas into innovative products to solve grand challenges and helping large corporations to learn and act like startups.
Author : Susan Harding
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082238681X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Histories of the Future written by Susan Harding and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world saturated by futures. Our lives are constructed around ideas and images about the future that are as full and as flawed as our understandings of the past. This book is a conceptual toolkit for thinking about the forms and functions that the future takes. Exploring links between panic and nostalgia, waiting and utopia, technology and messianism, prophecy and trauma, it brings together critical meditations on the social, cultural, and intellectual forces that create narratives and practices of the future. The prognosticators, speculators, prophets, and visionaries have their say here, but the emphasis is on small narratives and forgotten conjunctures, on the connections between expectation and experience in everyday life. In tightly linked studies, the contributors excavate forgotten and emergent futures of art, religion, technology, economics, and politics. They trace hidden histories of science fiction, futurism, and millennialism and break down barriers between far-flung cultural spheres. From the boardrooms of Silicon Valley to the forests of Java and from the literary salons of Tokyo to the roadside cafés of the Nevada desert, the authors stitch together the disparate images and stories of futures past and present. Histories of the Future is further punctuated by three interludes: a thought-provoking game that invites players to fashion future narratives of their own, a metafiction by renowned novelist Jonathan Lethem, and a remarkable graphic research tool: a timeline of timelines. Contributors. Sasha Archibald, Susan Harding, Jamer Hunt, Pamela Jackson, Susan Lepselter, Jonathan Lethem, Joseph Masco, Christopher Newfield, Elizabeth Pollman, Vicente Rafael, Daniel Rosenberg, Miryam Sas, Kathleen Stewart, Anna Tsing
Author : William MacAskill
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541618637
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book What We Owe the Future written by William MacAskill and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Instant New York Times Bestseller “This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It's as simple, and as ambitious, as that.” —Ezra Klein An Oxford philosopher makes the case for “longtermism” — that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. The fate of the world is in our hands. Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten future could last for millions more — or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering, or never live at all, depending on what we choose to do today. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill argues for longtermism, that idea that positively influencing the distant future is a key moral priority of our time. From this perspective, it’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert the next pandemic. We must ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; counter the end of moral progress; and prepare for a planet where the smartest beings are digital, not human. If we make wise choices today, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will thrive, knowing we did everything we could to give them a world full of justice, hope and beauty.
Author : Ghassan Hage
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522860001
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Waiting written by Ghassan Hage and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich and insightful collection of essays, leading anthropologist Ghassan Hage brings together academics across political science, philosophy, anthropology and sociology for an examination into the experience of waiting. What is it to wait? What do we wait for? And how is waiting connected to the social worlds in which we live? From Beckett's darkly comic play Waiting for Godot, to the perpetual waiting of refugees to return home or to moments of intense anticipation such as falling in love or the birth of a baby, there are many ways in which we wait. This compelling collection of essays suggests that this experience is among the essential conditions that make us human and connect us to others.
Author : Natasha Barber
Publisher : Future Horizons
ISBN 13 : 9781941765562
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The Waiting Song written by Natasha Barber and published by Future Horizons. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigel, a hedgehog is four years old and like other kids in class. Nigel is a little different too--he's autistic. Nigel is not very good at taking turns and he really does not like to wait. Nigel soon comes up with a way to be polite and wait: he sings his "Waiting Song!" Full color. 8 x 8.
Author : Steven Gale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Future Can't Wait written by Steven Gale and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future Can't Wait, September 2013 written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Storrs Hall
Publisher : Stripe Press
ISBN 13 : 1953953271
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Where Is My Flying Car? written by J. Storrs Hall and published by Stripe Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation: we’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years, and we’re still stuck in traffic in gas-guzzling sedans and boarding the same types of planes we flew in over half a century ago. What happened to the future we were promised? In Where Is My Flying Car?, J. Storrs Hall sets out to answer this deceptively simple question. What starts as an examination of the technical limitations of building flying cars evolves into an investigation of the scientific, technological, and social roots of the economic stagnation that started in the 1970s. From the failure to adopt nuclear energy and the suppression of cold fusion technology to the rise of a counterculture hostile to progress, Hall recounts how our collective ambitions for the future were derailed, with devastating consequences for global wealth creation and distribution. Hall then outlines a framework for a future powered by exponential progress—one in which we build as much in the world of atoms as we do in the world of bits, one rich in abundance and wonder. Drawing on years of original research and personal engineering experience, Where Is My Flying Car?, originally published in 2018, is an urgent, timely analysis of technological progress over the last 50 years and a bold vision for a better future.
Author : Amy Blankson
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1942952953
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (429 download)
Download or read book The Future of Happiness written by Amy Blankson and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology, at least in theory, is improving our productivity, efficiency, and communication. The one thing it's not doing is making us happier. We are experiencing historically high levels of depression and dissatisfaction. But we can change that. Knowing that technology is here to stay and will continue to evolve in form and function, we need to know how to navigate the future to achieve a better balance between technology, productivity, and well-being. Technology can drive—not diminish—human happiness. In The Future of Happiness, author Amy Blankson, cofounder of the global positive psychology consulting firm GoodThink, unveils five strategies successful individuals can use, not just to survive—but actually thrive—in the Digital Age: • Stay Grounded to focus your energy and increase productivity • Know Thyself through app-driven data to strive toward your potential • Train Your Brain to develop and sustain an optimistic mindset • Create a Habitat for Happiness to maximize the spaces where you live, work, and learn • Be a Conscious Innovator to help make the world a better place By rethinking when, where, why, and how you use technology, you will not only influence your own well-being but also help shape the future of your community. Discover how technologies can transform the idea of "I'll be happy when . . ." to being happy now.
Author : Paul James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781619617544
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Reverse Engineer Your Future: Stop Waiting for Success - Go Out and Make It Happen Now written by Paul James and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're waiting for that lucky break or fortuitous chance meeting that will set you on the road to happiness and financial success, you're wasting your time. You can hope for something good to happen-or you can make it happen. Paul James transformed himself from a struggling musician living in his brother's garage to a successful Internet marketer pulling in seven-figures in sales by utilizing seven essential insights. The powerful principles that dramatically altered his life can change yours as well. Controlling your future requires the ability to think differently and a willingness to switch directions quickly, if necessary. Paul offers seven keys to unlocking your hidden strengths and passions, which will enable you to clearly define who you want-and don't want-to be. He provides effective methods for breaking down a targeted end result into a series of specific, attainable goals you can reach without the help of any outside benefactor. Trusting your fate to good fortune is a dead end. It's time to take charge of your personal destiny. Reverse Engineer Your Future is your invaluable roadmap out of the comfort zone you've been stuck in while waiting for your life to change.
Author : Simon Community
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Waiting for the Future written by Simon Community and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Navtej Dhillon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815704720
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Generation in Waiting written by Navtej Dhillon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young people in the Middle East (15–29 years old) constitute about one-third of the region's population. Growth rates for this age group trail only sub-Saharan Africa. This presents the region with an historic opportunity to build a lasting foundation for prosperity by harnessing the full potential of its young population. Yet young people in the Middle East face severe economic and social exclusion due to substandard education, high unemployment, and poverty. Thus the inclusion of youth is the most critical development challenge facing the Middle East today. A Generation in Waiting portrays the plight of young people, urging greater investment designed to improve the lives of this critical group. It brings together perspectives from the Maghreb to the Levant. Each chapter addresses the complex challenges facing young people in many areas of their lives: access to decent education, opportunities for quality employment, availability of housing and credit, and transitioning to marriage and family formation. This volume presents policy implications and sets an agenda for economic development, creating a more hopeful future for this and future generations in the Middle East. Selected contributors include Ragui Assaad (University of Minnesota), Brahim Boudarbat (University of Montreal), Jad Chaaban (American University in Beirut), Nader Kabbani (Syria Trust for Development), Taher Kanaan (Jordan Center for Public Policy Research and Dialogue), Djavad Salehi-Isfahani (Wolfensohn Center for Development and Virginia Tech), and Edward Sayre (University of Southern Mississippi).
Author : Erwin Raphael McManus
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418566489
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Wide Awake written by Erwin Raphael McManus and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alarm sounds. Your feet hit the floor and carry you into another day. But what does that day hold for you? Will you be punching your card at work, catching up on TV at home, and crashing into bed before you rinse and repeat the next day? Or will you dare to dig deep and discover the incredible potential lying dormant within us all? In Wide Awake, renowned speaker and church visionary Erwin Raphael McManus challenges us to put an end to all the sleepwalking and settling, for each of us was created by God for a reason. He has called you to live as Jesus did—a heroic life, void of monotony, teeming with danger, adventure, and the unknown. Living wide awake is about realizing that the world desperately needs you to live up to your potential. There is a future that needs to be created, and it is waiting for us all to wake up and get out of bed. The alarm has sounded, and it is time to shake off the slumber. It’s time to live, to create, to imagine, to dream . . . Wide Awake.
Author : Sarita Foxworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781088153451
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (534 download)
Download or read book HOW TO PREPARE FOR YOUR FUTURE HUSBAND written by Sarita Foxworth and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How to Prepare for Your Future Future Husband Author & Life Coach Sarita tackles the issues that are specific to single Christian women in this generation using practical application of the Word of God, real-life scenarios, and rarely discussed topics of love, dating, and relationships. Each of her literary works presents heart-to-heart conversations on complex topics with personal transparency in love. She shows women how to prepare for their Adam, the man they were specifically created for, by sharing practical wisdom such as: How to recognize a true man of God How to live a full and joyful life while waiting for marriage How to grow in trusting God over the years How to date and make godly relationship choices with wisdom, peace, and grace How to make decisions regarding celibacy, living together pre-marriage, and dating as a single mom "Do whatever it takes to become relentless in your faith, build your trust in God and discover your life's purpose. Refuse to settle for anything less than God's best in the single season!" Sarita A. Foxworth
Author : Nigel Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780908636808
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Waiting for Einstein written by Nigel Cox and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four people are on the move and shuffle through their options with one eye on each other and the other on the future.
