The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years
Written by James Canton
Narrated by Danny Campbell
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About this audiobook
An advisor to three White House's spanning more than 30 years, Dr. Canton challenges us that with the right information about future trends it is possible to identify probable outcomes. It is possible, with the right information to navigate the Extreme Future.
The book covers the following major trends:
- How climate change and energy trends will reshape the planet
- How shifting population trends will transform the workforce
- How radical innovation trends will competitively drive business
- How astounding medicine trends will enhance people's life
- How dangerous terrorism trends will threaten the individual.
- How the rise of China will bring on a new global power struggle
The answers to these questions are not only available, but contained within these pages. The Extreme Future is the forecasting handbook for the twenty-first century.
James Canton
Dr. James Canton runs the Wild Writing MA at the University of Essex and is the author of Ancient Wonderings and Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape, which was inspired by his rural wandering in East Anglia. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Essex and reviews for the TLS, Caught by the River, and Earthlines. Canton is a regular on British television and radio and lectures frequently. He lives in Essex, England.
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Reviews for The Extreme Future
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Written by a renowned futurist, adviser to presidents. Well, that explains a lot. This book is utter lunacy. But wait, you say, you're laughing now, but you'll see! Well, dear reader, I write to you from the future! And let me tell you, in year 2020, so often portrayed by this book, these predictions are only more ridiculous. The author shows zero grasp of science, or even basic reality of the world. I could quote some of the dumber things, but why, pick a page at random and find your own.
And now I have to go back to my world of 2020, where I watch live 2-way TV that manipulates my brain directly through audio waves so I can put in my shift as a nano-alchemist working together with my colleague who is a an AI on creating new virtual experiences for the hordes of boomers revitalised to be in their 40s. We've got access to one of those new version of quantum computers that can bend time and access its versions from other dimensions. Later I have an appointment with my robo doctor (so much more reliable than those fleshy meatbag ones) through the Internet 4 (so excited by the coming Internet 5!). Maybe I can get him to prescribe me some of those nanobots to give me an edge at work.
Forgive the poor satire, the book does it so much better. But it might cause you to alternate between laughing and screaming.
The funny thing about this book is that it also "predicts" many things which were already a reality in 2006 when it was published as if the author was not just terrible at predictions but also hopelessly uninformed. It also predicts multiple futures. I imagine so that later he can take out that particular quote and say that he got it right. Yes, whilst also getting it completely wrong one sentence later. Seriously, this book contains amounts of bullshit visible from space. - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The predictions and forecasts are the usual mix of "that seems obvious" and "are you serious?" which I've encountered in similar books. The timelines for various technological innovations were very aggressive, we've already passed the date on many of them.It was interesting to see his predictions for America in 2015 and how the worst case scenario - putting a halt to immigration and drawing inwards among other aspects - matched the Trump 2016 platform.The single star is because the prose is horrible. Compared to more readable works by Toffler or, say, "The Year 2000" by Kahn and Weiner, this is full of marketing speak, completely nonsensical PowerPoint-style slides, buzz words, digressions, and so forth. There was a noticeable lack of citations and use of "anecdata" throughout.I wouldn't have bothered finishing it if I didn't read futurology as a hobby.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good mental expansion reading.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Some interesting ideas, but the rest seem patently obvious to anybody who is moderately literate in recently scientific advances.