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  • Anticipation, Sustainability, Futures and Human Extinction

    Ensuring Humanity’s Journey into The Distant Future

    by Bruce E. Tonn ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Anticipation and Futures
    This book considers the philosophical underpinnings, policy foundations, institutional innovations, and deep cultural changes needed to ensure that humanity has the best chance of surviving and flourishing into the very distant future.Anticipation of threats to the sustainability of human civilization needs to encompass time periods that span not just decades but millennia. All existential risks ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Convergence of Knowledge, Technology and Society

    Beyond Convergence of Nano-Bio-Info-Cognitive Technologies

    Edited by Bruce Tonn, George Whitesides, William S. Bainbridge, Mihail C. Roco ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This volume aims to document the most important worldwide accomplishments in converging knowledge and technology, including converging platforms, methods of convergence, societal implications, and governance in the last ten years. Convergence in knowledge, technology, and society is the accelerating, transformative interaction among seemingly distinct scientific disciplines, technologies, and ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

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  • What We Owe the Future

    by William MacAskill ...
    In this instant New York Times bestseller, a renowned philosopher puts forth the case for longtermismThe fate of the world – and the future – is in our hands. Now with a new foreword, What We Owe the Future argues for longtermism: that positively influencing the distant future is our time’s key moral priority. It’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert a pandemic. We must ensure that ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • What Should We Be Worried About?

    Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 13 - Edge Question Series
    Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the planet's most influential minds. He asked them to disclose something that, for ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • What Technology Wants

    by Kevin Kelly ...
    From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable— a sweeping vision oftechnology as a living force that can expand our individual potentialThis provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Waking the Frog

    Solutions for Our Climate Change Paralysis

    by Tom Rand ...
    An accessible discussion of ways to achieve a sustainable futureIn a highly readable account, venture capitalist, entrepreneur, engineer, and philosopher Tom Rand looks to contemporary psychology, economics, business, and finance to explain our stasis in the face of one of the most fundamental problems of our time: why climate disruption might just be our very own pot of hot water and we, the frog ... Read more

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  • The Gardens of Democracy

    A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government

    by Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer ...
    American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Retro Future

    Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future

    by John Michael Greer ...
    The author of The Long Descent examines a solution for the troubles of our modern age: technical regression.To most people paying attention to the collision between industrial society and the hard limits of a finite planet, it's clear that things are going very, very wrong. We no longer have unlimited time and resources to deal with the crises that define our future, and the options are limited to ... Read more

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  • Sacred Economics, Revised

    Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition

    by Charles Eisenstein ...
    Expanded and updated, Charles Eisenstein's classic treatise on capitalism, currency, and the gift economy.This revised version traces the history of money, from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, and includes new material on cryptocurrencies and emerging research that has come out since the book's original publication. CharlesEisenstein shows how capitalism contributes to alienation, ... Read more

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  • Limits and Beyond

    50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?

    by Ugo Bardi, Carlos Alvarez Pereira ...
    In 1972, a book changed the world.The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we learn, and what happens now?In The Limits to Growth, a team from MIT studied the way humans were using the resources of the earth. Using sophisticated computer modelling, the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Ingenuity Gap

    Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?

    by Thomas Homer-Dixon ...
    As crises multiply, ingenuity lags. This prescient classic explains why societies falter when problems outpace solutions—and offers a roadmap to close the gap before risks from climate shocks, pandemics, inequality, and AI spiral beyond control.First published at the turn of the millennium, The Ingenuity Gap by Thomas Homer-Dixon anticipated the turbulent world we now inhabit: pandemics, climate ... Read more

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  • Why Most Things Fail

    by Paul Ormerod ...
    From the best-selling author of The Death of Economics and Butterfly Economics, a ground-breaking look at a truth all too seldom acknowledged: most commercial and public policy ventures will not succeed.Paul Ormerod draws upon recent advances in biology to help us understand the surprising consequences of the Iron Law of Failure. And he shows what strategies corporations, businesses and ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD