01971cam a2200289 i 4500 567532017 TxAuBib 20220816120000.0 220523s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022015989 9780316497459 HRD 30.00 0316497452 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Christian, David, (historian), 1946- Future stories [BOOK] : what's next / David Christian. First edition. New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2022. x, 356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-341) and index. The future is uncertain, a bit spooky, possibly dangerous, maybe wonderful. We cope with this never-ending uncertainty by telling stories about the future, future stories. How do we construct those stories? Where is the future, the place where we set those stories? Can we trust our future stories? And what sort of futures do they show us? This book is about future stories and future thinking, about how we prepare for the future. Think of it as a sort of User’s Guide to the Future. We all need such a guide because the future is where we will spend the rest of our lives. David Christian, historian and author of Origin Story, is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. But with Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future, and a guide to what we think we know about it at all scales, from the individual to the cosmological. Provided by publisher. 20220816. Forecasting. Twenty-first century Forecasts.