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A Short History of the Future
Narrated by a far-future historian, Peter Jensen leaves an account of the world from the 1990s to the opening of the 23rd century as a gift to his granddaughter. A combination of fiction and scholarship, this third edition of Wagar's speculative history of the future alternates between descriptions of world events and intimate glimpses of this historian's family into the first centuries of the new millennium.
The Next Three Futures
Wagar pulls together all aspects of futures studies in this unique volume--comprising a vital introduction to, and defense of, the impressive array of futurist inquiry. The book examines how futurists think and work. It compares and analyzes their ideas on a wide range of topics, including the environment, politics, economics, war and peace, and sociocultural issues. Wagar also shows how the three ideological paradigms within the futures field, the technoliberal, the radical, and the countercultural, play a role in the study of the future. The organizing theme of this unique work by W. Warren Wagar is the way in which images of alternative futures are shaped by ideological differences in the...
Terminal Visions
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The City of Man
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The Open Conspiracy
The Open Conspiracy is H. G. Wells' vison to establish international control over the destinies of human life. Through a process of propaganda and a type of "conspiracy" unfolding in full view, Wells hopes to establish a world that is politically, socially and economically unified, ultimately leading to a global revolution aimed at peace, welfare and happiness - a "world commonwealth". First published in 1928 when the world was grappling with the effects of the First World War, and radical movements like communism and fascism were shaking the established order of the world, Wells pushes for a utopian world in which science is a religion and nation states do not exist any more. The Open Conspiracy prophetically foreshadows current developments towards a global, technocratic government and data-driven decision making.
From Faust to Strangelove
They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well-intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove--the scientists of film and fiction, cultural archetypes that reflected ancient fears of tampering with the unknown or unleashing the little-understood powers of nature. In From Faust to Strangelove Roslyn Haynes offers the first detailed and comprehensive study of the image of the scientist in Western literature and film--from medieval images of alchemists to present-day depictions of cyberpunks and genetic engineers.
H.G. Wells
A look inside one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
