How we will live
Subtitle: a synthesis of life in the future
By: Matthias Horx
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Frankfurt; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9783593380896; 9783593380897
Subjects: Twenty-first century; Forecasts; Social problems; Forecasting; Intellectual life; Technological innovations; Social prediction
Description: In a synthesis between fiction and non-fiction, futurist Matthias Horx takes us on a journey of possible human development through the next 100 years. He looks at the big socio-cultural shifts and asks challenging and provocative questions about everything from birth and belief to death and disaster: Will we clone ourselves? How will religion develop? Will we all be single?Is eternal life possible? How will daily life be in the future? The book follows the biographies of two very different children born in the year 2000. Through detailed scenarios developed from the author's research, we experience how our lives, our thinking and our behaviour will change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-368).
Table of contents: title: In a synthesis between fiction and non-fiction, futurist Matthias Horx takes us on a journey of possible human development through the next 100 years. He looks at the big socio-cultural shifts and asks challenging and provocative questions about everything from birth and belief to death and disaster: Will we clone ourselves? How will religion develop? Will we all be single?Is eternal life possible? How will daily life be in the future? The book follows the biographies of two very different children born in the year 2000. Through detailed scenarios developed from the author's research, we experience how our lives, our thinking and our behaviour will change.