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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark stylethorough, yet rivetingfamine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age...
2) Time lapse
Publisher
Xlrator Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24hrs into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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Where do you see yourself in five years? When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan. But when she wakes up, she's suddenly in a different apartment, with a different...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
vxiii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"We are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future. But the complexity of modern life won't provide that: experts in forecasting are reluctant to look more than 400 days out. History doesn't repeat itself, and even genetics won't tell you everything you want to know. Tomorrow remains uncharted territory, but Heffernan demonstrates how we can forge ahead with agility. Drawing on a wide array of people and places, Uncharted traces...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 16 cm
Description
"Do not try this at home. While these games might seem like simple dares or tests of bravery -- chanting in front of a mirror, riding an elevator alone, taking pictures in the dark -- you may be joined by unexpected playmates. They may promise otherworldly knowledge or contact with the other side, but nothing is without its cost. If you choose to ignore this advice and play the games locked in this book, just remember: What you summon may not want...
6) Expired
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
A man and woman develop a relationship in an uncharted future, and confront each other with the things they have done and what they have become.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
One of the most stunning achievements of moral philosophy is something we take for granted: moral universalism, or the idea that every human has equal moral worth. In What We Owe the Future, Oxford philosopher William MacAskill demands that we go a stepfurther, arguing that people not only have equal moral worth no matter where or how they live, but also no matter when they live. This idea has implications beyond the obvious (climate change) - including...
8) Machinehood
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of her. It's 2095 and people don't usually die from violence. Humanity is entirely dependent on pills that not only help them stay alive, but allow them to compete with artificial intelligence in an increasingly competitive gig economy. Daily doses protect against designer diseases, flow enhances focus, zips and buffs enhance physical...
9) Normal
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you. There are two types of people who think professionally about the future: Foresight strategists are civil futurists who think about geoengineering and smart cities and ways to evade Our Coming Doom; strategic forecasters are spook futurists, who think about geopolitical upheaval and drone warfare and ways to prepare clients for Our Coming Doom. The former...
10) Feed
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Formats
Description
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 CDs (3 hrs. 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A paradigm-shifting manifesto for transforming our thinking from reactionary short-termism to the long-term, widening our scope beyond today, tomorrow, and to even five hundred years from now to reclaim meaning in our lives.
12) Hello, future me
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Description
Soon-to-be twelve-year-old June is a planner and a problem-solver, and right now she and her friend Calvin are planning a big welcome home celebration for her mother, only her plan falls apart when she finds out that her parents are getting a divorce; June is convinced that she can find some way to get her parents back together--until she starts getting messages on her "new" laptop (refurbished by a mysterious store called The Shop of Last Resort),...
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The follow-up to Guriel's NYT New & Noteworthy Forgotten Work is a mashup of Moby-Dick, The Lord of the Rings, Byron, cyberpunk, Swamp Thing, Teen Wolf ... and more. It's 2070. Newfoundland has vanished, Tokyo is a new Venice, and many people have retreated to "bonsai housing": hives that compress matter in a world that's losing ground to rising tides. Enter Kaye, an English literature student searching for the reclusive author of a YA classic--a...
15) Vigil Harbor
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A decade in the future, in the historic town of Vigil Harbor, there's been a rash of divorces among the yacht-club set; a marine biologist despairs at the state of the world; a spurned wife is bent on revenge; and the renowned architect Austin Kepner pursues a passion for building homes to withstand the escalating fury of coastal storms. Brecht, Austin's stepson, has dropped out of college and retreated home from New York after narrowly escaping...
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