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Título: AFTER SHOCK: THE WORLD'S FOREMOST FUTURISTS REFLECT ON 50 YEARS OF FUTURE SHOCK –AND LOOK AHEAD TO THE NEXT 50
Autor: SCHROETER, JOHN
Año: 2020
Género: ENSAYO
Formato: EPUB

«After Shock» marks the 50-year anniversary of Alvin Toffler's, «Future Shock». The compendium of essays comprising this landmark volume offers insightful reflections on the classic text and presents compelling and surprising views of the future –through the very unique lenses of more than 100 thought-leading futurists spanning Ray Kurzweil to Lord Martin Rees, and featuring a foreword by Deb Westphal, Chairman of the Board of Toffler Associates.

In 1970, futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler were thrust upon the world stage by the publication of their international bestseller, «Future Shock» –the title describing a condition whose characteristic “shattering stress and disorientation” would inevitably be brought about by “too much change in too short a period of time.”

Whether the Tofflers' warnings about the acceleration of technological and social change have proved prophetic or apocryphal, their insights were –and continue to be– potent catalysts for contemplating our probable, possible, and preferred versions of the future. Indeed, in the end, we will realize either the world we fear to imagine or the world we dare to dream.

Dare, then, to journey into all these potential futures, guided by the extraordinary insights of the world's foremost thought leaders who in the pages of «After Shock» collectively chart the course to an abundant future for all.

“In the 2030s we will use nanobots to connect our neocortexes to the cloud and thereby enhance our intellectual capability with these major nonbiological enhancements. Our biological intelligence is more or less fixed, whereas our nonbiological intelligence will grow indefinitely.” (Ray Kurzweil)

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