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Next 100 Years, The: A Forecast for the 21st Century

by George Friedman

The New York Times BestsellerIf you think you know where the world is headed, think again Mexico making a bid for global supremacy?Poland becoming America's closest ally?World War III taking place in space?...


The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,

by Virginia Postrel

Today we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our current condition -- as slaves to technology, coarsened by...


Healing This Wounded Earth: With Compassion, Spirit and the Power of Hope

by Eleanor Stoneham

The world is seriously wounded threatened by violence egocentricity and mass consumerism. Government intervention alone will never solve society's problems. We need personal responsibility and healing on a global...


Dispatches from Blogistan: A travel guide for the modern blogger

by Suzanne Stefanac

This is the eBook version of the printed book.The term "blog" wasn't coined until 1999 and yet by 2004, it had become Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Globally, the number of blogs is doubling every six months,...


The Meaning of the 21st Century

by James Martin

According to James Martin-known as "the guru of the Information Age"-humanity is at a crucial turning point. If we succeed in finding ways to support massive gains in population combined with dizzying technological...


Facebook Me! A Guide to Socializing, Sharing, and Promoting on Facebook, 2/e

by Dave Awl

This is the eBook version of the printed book.In Facebook Me! Dave Awl takes you on a guided tour of everything Facebook has to offer, and shows you how to get the most out of the time you spend on Facebook....


The Coming Global Superstorm

by Art Bell & Whitley Strieber

Killer tornadoes. Violent tropical storms. Devastating temperatures. Are these just the prelude to an unprecedented environmental disaster in our near future?

Two of America's leading investigators of unexplained...


The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

by Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework...


And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture

by Bill Wasik

"An odd but happy marriage of sociological observation and Gonzo- style adventure."

-Wired

Journalist and new media provocateur Bill Wasik journeys to the edge of our churning and rambunctious viral culture...


140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form

by Dom Sagolla

Make the most of your messages on Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites

The advent of Twitter and other social networking sites, as well as the popularity of text messaging, have made short-form...


Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading

by NoContributor

A groundbreaking vision on the future of reading, from an early innovator on Amazon's Kindle team.

  • Is digital the death knell for print?
  • Or will it reinvigorate the written word?
  • What will happen to bookstores,...


Mind Set!

by John Naisbitt

In his seminal works Megatrends and Megatrends 2000, John Naisbitt proved himself one of the most far-sighted and accurate observers of our fast-changing world.

Mind Set! goes beyond that by disclosing the secret...


Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

by Annalee Newitz

In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful...


Who Owns the Future?

by Jaron Lanier

THE DAZZLING NEW MASTERWORK FROM THE PROPHET OF SILICON VALLEY

Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time....


The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

by Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen

In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a...


The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World

by Marina Gorbis

A renowned futurist offers a vision of a reinvented world.

Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get...


The Upcycle

by Michael Braungart, William McDonough & President Bill Clinton

From the authors of Cradle to Cradle, we learn what’s next: The Upcycle

The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, one of the most consequential ecological manifestoes of our time....


Utopian Frontiers: A Story of Hope

by Drew Tapley

What if there was a secret city at work on finding answers to the survival of humanity? Technologies beyond your imagination. A city expanding, recruiting and evolving. There is no government, no money, no bosses,...


Your Digital Afterlife: When Facebook, Flickr and Twitter Are Your Estate, What's Your Legacy?

by Evan Carroll & John Romano

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

Almost without realizing it, we have stopped saving our memories in photo albums, home movies, and letters, and have transitioned to almost total digital storage...


Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

by Douglas Rushkoff

"If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism."

 

This is the moment we've been waiting for, explains award-winning media theorist Douglas...