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Future Files: 5 Trends That Will Shape the Next 50 Years
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Published
October 25th 2008
by Nicholas Brealey Publishing
(first published 2007)
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Accessible manual of near-future trends
In this bold, entertaining book, futurist Richard Watson reports the results of decades of thought about the future. He identifies more than 200 separate trends, which he helpfully winnows down into five overarching themes illustrated with real-world and hypothetical examples. His breezy style weaves these themes into the major areas of life: work, finances, politics, science, health care and entertainment, among others. Watson’s vision of the future covers...more
In this bold, entertaining book, futurist Richard Watson reports the results of decades of thought about the future. He identifies more than 200 separate trends, which he helpfully winnows down into five overarching themes illustrated with real-world and hypothetical examples. His breezy style weaves these themes into the major areas of life: work, finances, politics, science, health care and entertainment, among others. Watson’s vision of the future covers...more
Impresionante!! Una gran cantidad de información e hipótesis sobre como será el mundo en 50 años. Estamos en medio de una época de grandes cambios, necesidades masivas, buscamos la comodidad e inmediatez.. Estamos plenty en deudas y dentro de algunos años los chismes del pueblo serán si tal o cual planea tener un bebe con un robot. Los jóvenes de ahora difícilmente podremos dar a nuestros hijos la vida y status que nos dieron nuestros padres.
Las compañías aseguradoras se verán en problemas si se...more
Las compañías aseguradoras se verán en problemas si se...more
This is a fast paced book written by a futurologist, who looks at the social trends that are shaping the future emails covered ageing, work, leisure, technology, lifestyles, and much more. Most interesting for me were the data he presented on trends over the last few years. I had noticed them but had not realised that they were global rather than local. Some of his predictions, given that the book was written 4 years ago, seem not to have happened, such as the global shortage of workers, but the...more
As the title would indicate, this is a book about predictions for the next 50 years.
Normally I love to read prediction books. I am always intrigued about what people think will happen. But this book couldn't hold my attention. There was just too much crammed in the book.
The book starts with a description of the 5 most important trends. I think that if the book had taken those 5 and simply expanded on them, it would have been easier to read, and more interesting. Instead, the book goes into 11 di...more
Normally I love to read prediction books. I am always intrigued about what people think will happen. But this book couldn't hold my attention. There was just too much crammed in the book.
The book starts with a description of the 5 most important trends. I think that if the book had taken those 5 and simply expanded on them, it would have been easier to read, and more interesting. Instead, the book goes into 11 di...more
This title intrigued me: "The 5 trends that will shape the next 50 years". If you can get past the wiz-bang style of writing, it is actually a fun read. Not deep, but fun. Drawing from a number of predictive sources, as well as his own feverish brain, the author takes on every aspect of modern culture with often surpising and sometimes hilarious future forcasts. My only complaint is that his section on the future of business and work is, to me, so so wrong. I do not see the workplace or companie...more
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Не люблю сиквелы. Редко когда хорошая книга, ставшая хитом и будучи "проапдейченной", поражает и во второй раз. Не читал первое издание, но во втором много "воды".
Действительно, чего люди будут бояться в 2050 году? По мнению Р. Уотсона, прежде всего реальности. «Мы будем бояться незнания, будем бояться вещей, которые не сможем контролировать, будем бояться неуверенности. #60;…> Мы будем стремиться получить «научные» данные относительно статистической вероятности практически всего…» – считает...more
Действительно, чего люди будут бояться в 2050 году? По мнению Р. Уотсона, прежде всего реальности. «Мы будем бояться незнания, будем бояться вещей, которые не сможем контролировать, будем бояться неуверенности. #60;…> Мы будем стремиться получить «научные» данные относительно статистической вероятности практически всего…» – считает...more
I think this is a good book about shape of the future. It is inevitable that global warming, increase on traveling, and increase on tax is change our lives. So I recommend this book for people who like to know what trend that can be happen in near future (10-50 years ahead).
This is a great insight into what the future COULD look like. Plenty of real examples, fictional ones and slightly oriented more towards pessimism.
But you don't get depressed by reading this book, nor paranoid, but you sure want to make the world a better place.
But you don't get depressed by reading this book, nor paranoid, but you sure want to make the world a better place.
Gets a lot of the economic parts right ( I suspect it had all already started to happen however, so he ' predicted ' it. The analysis still very good ) No so good on the technological.
A well written guess at what the next 50 years might have in store. I disagree with a fair amount but its focus on social media / social networking / semantic web is great.
The 5 most important trends for the next 50 years:
(1) Ageing, (2) Power shift eastwards, (3) Global connectivity, GRIN (Genetics, Robotics, Internet and Nanotechnology) technologies, and (5) The environment.
5 trends that will transform society:
(1) Globalization, (2) Locatization, (3) Polarization, (4) Anxiety, and (5) Search for Meaning.
5 things that won’t change over the next 50 years:
(1) An interest in the future and a yearning for the past, (2) A desire for recognition and respect, (3) The ne...more
(1) Ageing, (2) Power shift eastwards, (3) Global connectivity, GRIN (Genetics, Robotics, Internet and Nanotechnology) technologies, and (5) The environment.
5 trends that will transform society:
(1) Globalization, (2) Locatization, (3) Polarization, (4) Anxiety, and (5) Search for Meaning.
5 things that won’t change over the next 50 years:
(1) An interest in the future and a yearning for the past, (2) A desire for recognition and respect, (3) The ne...more
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Watson is insightful about everything and this book gives educated ideas about the future on almost every angle a reader can think of.
thought it was very interesting...a great read
Lots of interesting ideas about what the future's going to hold. Perhaps not as profound as Alvin Toffler's books but a bit more entertaining.
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