Future Politics

Como historiador e cidadão, julguei que poderia ajudar o país promovendo um debate de alto nível sobre alguns dos problemas mais importantes que o Brasil precisa resolver nos próximos anos. Concebemos a obra com o objetivo explícito de qualificar o debate, de avançar na discussão de ideias, de reunir um grupo de brasileiros dispostos a sugerir políticas públicas em sua área de especialização e interesse. O leitor não vai encontrar aqui ensaios acadêmicos, embora todos os autores reunidos tenham competência para formulá-los, com muita qualidade.

An examination of UK politics and politicians from 1945 to 2023, written for people who hate or ignore both. A manifesto for a political future based on philosophy and wisdom about how our political system should be changed—which, of course, means goodbye to party politics....

Life on earth is facing unprecedented challenges from global warming, war, and mass extinctions. The plight of seeds is a less visible but no less fundamental threat to our survival. Seeds are at the heart of the planet's life-support systems. Their power to regenerate and adapt are essential to...

Legal scholars often speak of “constitutional moments,” flash points when irreconcilable ideals collide and the government faces choices that could reshape the country for generations. Are we facing our own moment now? In Vanishing Point, author Edwin Hagenstein explores our troubled political scene by analyzing the work of three prominent Constitutional thinkers: Richard Epstein, Cass Sunstein, and Adrian Vermeule. By contrasting their perspectives, Hagenstein clarifies the path which led to our present impasse and raises the question: how do we proceed from here?

Securing Canada’s Future offers a comprehensive analysis of the most serious challenges that Canada will face in the near future. Written by leading Canadian women scholars and security experts, this collection covers the most critical risks and threats on the horizon, including rising Chinese power, resurgent Russian aggression, escalating competition in the Arctic, the near irreversibility of climate change, disaster management and mitigation, evolving cybersecurity threats, and gendered violence.

A Just Future addresses the precarious future of American higher education and diversity and inclusion initiatives along with it. From a global pandemic to a national reckoning with anti-Blackness, the 2020 historical conjuncture brutally revealed the impact of structural inequalities on historically marginalized communities and galvanized college students, diversity officers, and educators on a scale not seen since the 1960s. In so doing, it exposed the unfinished business of the civil rights era and the limits of diversity and inclusion reforms.

In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures - far from John Hancock's elegant model - have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated essays, Anne Trubek argues that the decline and even elimination of handwriting from daily life does not signal a decline in civilisation, but rather the next stage in the evolution of communication.

Despite being the wealthiest nation on earth, the United States spends much of its health-care money and resources pursuing the wrong goal: curing people after they get sick. In this provocative book, Nicholas J. Webb charts a bold new path that puts the focus not on reactionary treatment, but on anticipation and prevention.

Learn how to get started with Futures Thinking. With this practical guide, Phil Balagtas, founder of the Design Futures Initiative and the global Speculative Futures network, shows you how designers and futurists have made futures work at companies such as Atari, IBM, Apple, Disney, Autodesk, Lufthansa, and McKinsey & Company.

Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), spent four years traveling the country and asking economists, futurists, labor leaders, CEOs, investment bankers, entrepreneurs, and political leaders to help envision the US economy 25 to 30 years from now. He vividly reports on people who are analyzing and creating this new economy - such as investment banker Steve Berkenfeld; David Cote, the CEO of Honeywell International; and Andy Grove of Intel.

In this era of increasingly complex problems and shrinking resources, can we find meaningful and enduring solutions to the challenges we face today as individuals, communities, and nations? Walk Out Walk On, we invite you on a learning journey to seven communities around the world to meet people who have walked out of limiting beliefs and assumptions and walked on to create healthy and resilient communities.

Was hält die Zukunft für unsere Gesellschaft bereit? Die Publizistin und Autorin Gertrud Höhler wirft einen kritischen Blick auf die Entwicklung der Bundesrepublik im ausgehenden 20. Jahrhundert. "Die Zukunftsgesellschaft" beschäftigt sich mit Themen wie Innovation, Veränderung der Geschlechterrollen, Bildung im Kindesalter und vielem mehr. Höhler stellt durchdachte Analysen und Thesen zu dem politischen und gesellschaftlichen Weg vor, den Deutschland beschreitet.

Le monde de l'entreprise s'humanise, s'adoucit, s'assouplit. Télétravail, semaine de quatre jours, management participatif... Les sociétés s'ouvrent à plus d'autonomie et de confiance. On ne peut que se réjouir de ces libertés nouvelles. Mais gare à l’" empire du bien " ! Lorsque la pensée positive infuse les esprits, que la bienveillance devient une injonction et le bien-être l'unique boussole, le risque est grand de sombrer dans une bien-pensance mortifère pour l'intelligence.

Right in the middle of the German constitution, a group of ordinary citizens discovers a forgotten clause that allows them to take 240,000 homes back from multi-billion corporations. In this work of creative non-fiction, scholar-activist and Nine Dots Prize winner Joanna Kusiak tells the story of a grassroots movement that convinced a million Berliners to pop the speculative housing bubble. She offers a vision of urban housing as democratically held commons, legally managed by a radically new institutional model that works through democratic conflicts.

People need a creed and a cause, and today millions of patriotic Americans are finding their voices. They say the best indicator of the future is history. How things have been can be a powerful signal of how they will be. But what will be our role in shaping the future for this country?...

Supertrends: 50 Things You Need to Know About the Future is about how efficient futurists work and how we can expect the world to evolve in terms of demographics, general economics, technologies, business models, resources, environment, and lifestyles. This audiobook addresses how to predict the future, what we can expect from it, and how companies and government should adapt to the accelerating change.

The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and important book, the economic crisis also presents a historic opportunity to choose a radically different future for capitalism, one that maximizes its creative power and minimizes its destructive force.

From widespread unemployment and mounting international hostilities, every day we are swept into more political chaos—so one brave man looks to the Star Wars universe for answers to our most urgent problems. “You can’t stop the change — anymore than you can stop the sun from setting.”...

Warum KI keine Ahnung hat und trotzdem alles kann. 2023 fing die Künstliche Intelligenz an, zu schreiben und zu sprechen wie ein Mensch. Damit steht die Welt vor einem fundamentalen Umbruch. Unsere Zivilisation, die Art und Weise, wie wir leben und arbeiten, wird so stark verändert werden wie durch die Erfindung des Internets. Noch lässt sich nur erahnen, welches Ausmaß an Innovationen in allen Lebensbereichen nun möglich ist. Fest steht aber, dass wir diese technische und gesellschaftliche Revolution nur dann in unserem Sinne steuern können, wenn wir sie und ihre Pioniere kennen und verstehen.

Sixty years ago, legendary economist John Kenneth Galbraith issued a grim prophecy that the global elite would harness the potential of the burgeoning computing revolution to accumulate even more wealth and power.