{"title":"Social forecasting, future studies Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"human-frontiers-9780349128283","title":"Human Frontiers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e''A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide''\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A fascinating, must-read book covering a vast array of topics from the arts to the sciences, technology to policy. This is a brilliant and thought-provoking response to one of the most critical questions of our age: how we will come up with the next generation of innovation and truly fresh ideas?''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMustafa Suleyman, cofounder of DeepMind and Google VP\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Have big ideas and big social and economic changes disappeared from the scene? 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This is a \u003cb\u003ebrilliant and thought-provoking\u003c\/b\u003e response to one of the most critical questions of our age: how we will come up with the next generation of innovation and truly fresh ideas?\u003c\/p\u003e -- Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder, DeepMind; Google VP\u003cbr\u003eHave 'Big Ideas' and big social and economic changes disappeared from the scene? Michael Bhaskar's HUMAN FRONTIERS is the best look at these all-important questions -- Tyler Cowen, author of THE GREAT STAGNATION and THE COMPLACENT CLASS\u003cbr\u003eMichael Bhaskar explores the disturbing possibility that a complacent, cautious civilisation has lost ambition, and is slowly sinking into technological stagnation, rather than accelerating into a magical future. He is calling for bold, adventurous innovators to go big again. \u003cb\u003eA fascinating book\u003c\/b\u003e -- Matt Ridley, author of HOW INNOVATION WORKS\u003cbr\u003eMichael Bhaskar deftly delivers big ideas about big ideas ... HUMAN FRONTIERS\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis an admiring stroll through the history of ideas and an impressive display of innovation erudition -- Safi Bahcall, author of LOONSHOTS: NURTURE THE CRAZY IDEAS THAT WIN WARS, CURE DISEASES, AND TRANSFORM INDUSTRIES\u003cbr\u003eMichael Bhaskar's HUMAN FRONTIERS is a greatly welcome contrast to both doom-and-gloom and overly boosterish views of humanity's future. It combines a masterful breadth of social perspective with an impressive grasp of our problems and potential solutions. \u003cb\u003eVisionary and convincing\u003c\/b\u003e -- Christine Peterson, co-founder, Foresight Institute\u003cbr\u003eBhaskar wants us to believe that big ideas, sometimes seized upon in an instant, propel humankind's progress. The thesis is boldly and elegantly stated; the examples work in its favor. This important book demands our answer -- Margaret C. Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eSweeping in scope and thought-provoking throughout, HUMAN FRONTIERS is vital for understanding every aspect of Big Ideas: their origins, their role in societal progress, and how we can make more of them ... A paean to curiosity, HUMAN FRONTIERS is essential reading for understanding how science and progress works, and how it can work in the future -- Samuel Arbesman, Scientist in Residence, Lux Capital; author of OVERCOMPLICATED and THE HALF-LIFE OF FACTS\u003cbr\u003eThe world's big ideas are slowing down, but it needn't be that way. Bhaskar brilliantly shows how we can do better. If you loved books like HUMANKIND and SAPIENS, you'll love HUMAN FRONTIERS -- David Bodanis, author of EINSTEIN’S GREATEST MISTAKE and THE ART OF FAIRNESS\u003cbr\u003eIdeas through history often reconfigure our world. But is this vital process slowing down and stagnating? 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Along the way, as Henry Sanderson shows in his essential book, we have become dangerously dependent on China which now dominates global battery supply. Under President Xi Jinping, who uses economic blackmail to extract political concessions, China has got a lock on the future. 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Beautifully written, and with wonderful humour, this is a thrilling adventure story of our own future -- LEWIS DARTNELL, author of THE KNOWLEDGE and ORIGINS\u003cbr\u003eTom Chivers' meticulously researched book is intriguing, persuasive and eye-opening. His writing is warm and witty as he takes us on a surprisingly moving journey to decide - rationally - whether we really are playing Russian roulette with our future -- HANNAH FRY, author of HELLO WORLD\u003cbr\u003eThis book is about so much more than AI. It's about what happens when an attempt at perfectly rational behaviour meets the messy complications of humanity and its achievements. In an increasingly digitised world, the outcome has something to say about us all. The brilliance of this book is the challenge it presents, because we can't examine the Rationalists without also examining ourselves. 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But what happens if we actually succeed?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to \u003cb\u003ethe world''s pre-eminent AI expert\u003c\/b\u003e, it could also be the last. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this groundbreaking book, \u003cb\u003eStuart Russell \u003c\/b\u003esets out why he has come to consider his own discipline an existential threat to humanity, and how we can change course before it''s too late. In brilliant and lucid prose, he explains how AI actually works and its enormous capacity to improve our lives - and why we must never lose control of machines more powerful than we are. 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Russell deploys a \u003cb\u003ebracing intellectual rigour\u003c\/b\u003e . . . but a \u003cb\u003elaconic style and dry humour\u003c\/b\u003e keep his book accessible to the lay reader. * The Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eIt's asking a lot of a book about the potential end of civilisation to be strewn with humour and wry asides, but this is what Russell manages . . . it's worth sticking with, for the sake of the species. -- Best Science, Nature and Ideas Books of 2019 * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eexcellent, nuanced\u003c\/b\u003e history. * The Telegraph, Best New Science Books for Christmas *\u003cbr\u003eRussell is an assiduous and conscientious scholar ... [he] provides a wealth of information. \u003cb\u003eThis is one of those intellectual voyages where both the journey and the destination matter\u003c\/b\u003e. -- John Naughton * The Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eThis is \u003cb\u003ethe most important book I have read in quite some time\u003c\/b\u003e. It lucidly explains how the coming age of artificial super-intelligence threatens human control. Crucially, it also introduces \u003cb\u003ea novel solution and a reason for hope\u003c\/b\u003e. * Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' *\u003cbr\u003eOf the many books published this year on artificial intelligence, \u003cb\u003ethis is probably the best\u003c\/b\u003e. Stimulating and scary stuff. -- Best Books of 2019: Technology * The Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA must-read\u003c\/b\u003e: this intellectual tour-de-force by one of AI's true pioneers not only explains the risks of ever more powerful artificial intelligence in a \u003cb\u003ecaptivating and persuasive\u003c\/b\u003e way, but also proposes a concrete and promising solution. * Professor Max Tegmark, MIT, author of 'Life 3.0' *\u003cbr\u003eStuart Russell has long been the most sensible voice in computer science on the topic of AI risk. And he has now written \u003cb\u003ethe book we've all been waiting for\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003ci\u003eHuman Compatible \u003c\/i\u003eis a \u003cb\u003ebrilliant and utterly accessible guide\u003c\/b\u003e to what will be either the best or worst technological development in human history. -- Sam Harris, author of five New York Times bestsellers and host of the Making Sense podcast\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman Compatible\u003c\/i\u003e made me a convert to Russell's concerns with our ability to control our upcoming creation -- super-intelligent machines. Unlike outside alarmists and futurists, \u003cb\u003eRussell is a leading authority on AI\u003c\/b\u003e. His new book \u003cb\u003ewill educate the public about AI more than any book I can think of, and is a delightful and uplifting read\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Judea Pearl, Turing Award-winner and author of 'The Book of Why'\u003cbr\u003eStuart Russell, one of the most important AI scientists of the last 25 years, may have written \u003cb\u003ethe most important book about AI so far\u003c\/b\u003e, on one of the most important questions of the 21st century: How to build AI to be compatible with us. The book proposes a novel and intriguing solution for this problem, while offering many thought-provoking ideas and insights about AI along the way. \u003cb\u003eAn accessible and engaging \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emust-read \u003c\/b\u003efor the developers of AI and the users of AI - that is, for all of us. -- James Manyika * Chairman and director of McKinsey Global Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe man set on stopping the machines taking over.\u003c\/b\u003e * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eclear and compelling\u003c\/b\u003e language, Stuart Russell describes the huge potential benefits of Artificial Intelligence, as well as the hazards and ethical challenges. It's specially welcome that \u003cb\u003ea respected \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eleading authority\u003c\/b\u003e should offer this balanced appraisal, avoiding both hype and scaremongering. -- Professor Martin Rees, Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Cambridge, and author of 'On the Future'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA strong case\u003c\/b\u003e for planning for the day when machines can outsmart us. * Kirkus Review *\u003cbr\u003ePersuasively argued and lucidly imagined, \u003ci\u003eHuman Compatible\u003c\/i\u003e offers an \u003cb\u003eunflinching, incisive\u003c\/b\u003e look at what awaits us in the decades ahead. 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Wilson Literary Science Writing Award \u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is worse, much worse, than you think. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn''t happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the past decades, the term Anthropocene has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003cb\u003e crystalline prose\u003c\/b\u003e, Wallace-Wells provides a devastating overview of where we are in terms of climate crisis and ecological destruction, and what the future will hold if we keep on going down the same path. \u003cb\u003eUrgently readable, this is an epoch-defining book\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Matt Haig, 'The Book that Changed My Mind' * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Clear, engaging and often dazzling'\u003c\/b\u003e * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A masterly analysis'\u003c\/b\u003e * Nature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelentless, angry journalism of the highest order\u003c\/b\u003e. Read it and, for the lack of any more useful response, weep. . . .The article was a sensation and the book will be, too. -- Bryan Appleyard * The Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most terrifying book I have ever read\u003c\/b\u003e . . . a\u003cb\u003e meticulously documented\u003c\/b\u003e, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet. * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis is what I'm reading now: \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e by David Wallace-Wells. It focuses on the range of realistic possibilities with climate change. It does not sugarcoat, and can be quite scary -- that's without primarily focusing on the worstcase scenario. \u003cb\u003eWhen people ask 'What can I do? - Read!\u003c\/b\u003e What we need right now, in this country, is for all of us to be better, including ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA must-read\u003c\/b\u003e. It's not only the grandkids and the kids: it's you. And it's not only those in other countries: it's you. -- Margaret Atwood * Twitter *\u003cbr\u003eI've not stopped talking about \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth \u003c\/i\u003esince I opened the first page.  And \u003cb\u003eI want every single person on this planet to read it\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRiveting\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Some readers will find Mr Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. \u003cb\u003eHe is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.\u003c\/b\u003e * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003eSkipping the scientific jargon and relaying the facts in \u003cb\u003eurgent and elegant prose\u003c\/b\u003e, the magazine editor crafts \u003cb\u003ea stirring wake-up call\u003c\/b\u003e to recognize how global warming will permanently alter every aspect of human life. -- Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 So Far * Time *\u003cbr\u003eWallace-Wells is an \u003cb\u003eextremely adept storyteller, simultaneously urgent and humane\u003c\/b\u003e . . .  [he] does a terrifyingly good job of moving between the specific and the abstract. * Slate *\u003cbr\u003eEnough to induce an honest-to-God panic attack ... The margins of my review copy of the book are scrawled with expressions of terror and despair, declining in articulacy as the pages proceed, until it's all just cartoon sad faces and swear words ... \u003cb\u003eTo read \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is to understand the collapse of the distinction between alarmism and plain realism\u003c\/b\u003e -- Mark O'Connell * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eThere is \u003cb\u003emuch to learn from this book\u003c\/b\u003e. From media and scientific reports of the past decade, Wallace-Wells sifts key predictions and conveys them in \u003cb\u003evivid prose\u003c\/b\u003e. -- David George Haskell * The Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrilliant\u003c\/b\u003e ... At the heart of Wallace-Wells's book is a remorseless, near-unbearable account of what we are doing to our planet * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eNot since Bill McKibben's \"The End of Nature\" 30 years ago have we been told what climate change will mean in such vivid terms. -- Fred Pearce * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eEveryone should \u003cb\u003estop what they're doing and read \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e by @dwallacewells. This is our future if we don't act now. -- Johann Hari * Twitter *\u003cbr\u003eWake up! Get educated - \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e by David Wallace Wells is a great place to start. -- Paris Lees * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eA book that's by turns alarming, terrifying and just downright bleak . . .\u003cb\u003e a sustained piece of informed polemic\u003c\/b\u003e. * The Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003every accessible and compelling\u003c\/b\u003e read . . . a much more\u003cb\u003e nuanced\u003c\/b\u003e and a much more\u003cb\u003e hopeful\u003c\/b\u003e vision than you might expect. * The Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eI think\u003cb\u003e everyone should probably right now read David Wallace-Wells's \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, which tells the grim story with as much optimism as possible, and which gives all the facts. -- Daniel Swift * The Spectator, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eWell-written, \u003cb\u003ecaptivating\u003c\/b\u003e, occasionally wry and utterly petrifying * i News *\u003cbr\u003eIn his \u003cb\u003egripping \u003c\/b\u003enew book ... Wallace-Wells \u003cb\u003eshocks\u003c\/b\u003e us out of complacency' * Prospect *\u003cbr\u003eIf you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be [this] . . . \u003cb\u003eWhat this book forces you to face is more important than any other subject you could be informing yourself about.\u003c\/b\u003e * The Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eExceptionally well researched and written. . . . This short, concise book pulls no punches.\u003cbr\u003eYes, this book will scare you, but it will also \u003cb\u003eprompt you to take action\u003c\/b\u003e to ensure the damage we as humans have done to the planet is stopped. * Stylist, ‘Your guide to 2019’s best non-fiction books’ *\u003cbr\u003eMost of us known the gist, if not the details, of the climate change crisis. And yet it is almost impossible to sustain strong feelings about it. David Wallace-Wells has now provided the details, and with writing that is not only \u003cb\u003eclear and forceful, but often imaginative and even funny\u003c\/b\u003e, he has found a way to make the information deeply felt. This is a \u003cb\u003eprofound\u003c\/b\u003e book, which simultaneously makes me \u003cb\u003eterrified and hopeful about the future, full of regret and new will\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarrowing\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Jonathan Franzen * The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e hits you like a comet, with an \u003cb\u003eoverflow of insanely lyrical prose\u003c\/b\u003e about our pending armageddon.\u003cbr\u003eJust finished The Uninhabitable Earth by @dwallacewells. \u003cb\u003eEveryone, everywhere, should read it\u003c\/b\u003e. 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If you care about the future of your profession and wish to add further comment to the raging controversies surrounding it, better get yourself a copy now. * Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richard Green Chambers *\u003cbr\u003eIn The Future of the Professions, father-and-son authors Richard and Daniel Susskind do a remorselessly effective job of demolishing the self-deception most people engage in when comparing themselves to machines. * Richard Waters, Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe authors are undoubtedly right that the professions will change more in the next quarter-century than they have in the previous three. * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable work. * Tom Watson, The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a bold book ... The Future of the Professions helps us to recognise the professions' current methods as convoluted, self-serving rituals designed to wrap simple tasks in mystique. * Giles Wilkes, Prospect *\u003cbr\u003eThe Future of the Professions is a paradox that only a human mind could appreciate: the inevitable death of the professions is presented in an expert, original and witty work by two professionals whose skills (in thinking, writing and consultancy) are unlikely any time soon to be replicated by a machine. * David Pannick, The Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, is a must read for anyone who wants to gain insights into where the legal profession is going ... Nothing else I have read more clearly and convincingly elucidates the future of legal services and how technology will transform the traditional practice of law. * Dan Pinnington, Slaw *\u003cbr\u003eAn act of delicious iconoclasm. * Prospect Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eBoth a good read and a good starter for strategic planning in professional firms * Chris Yapp, Future Tech Blog *\u003cbr\u003eI suggest that everyone who considers themselves 'professional' reads this book, especially those who are aged, say, 20-45, who need to secure their role in the new world of work. The authors predict that \"our professions will be dismantled incrementally\". If they are right, todays lawyers need to prepare for it, and the sooner the better. * Dan Bindman, Legal Futures *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating and challenging book. * Medium *\u003cbr\u003eThe study is exceptionally well informed and important contribution to thinking about the future of professional work * Network Review *\u003cbr\u003eAs the saying is, the future is now and we ignore it at our peril. Please read this book. * Law Skills *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is written in a relaxed, flowing and easily-consumable style ... a read of The Future of the Professions is time very well-spent. * Jeremy Hopkins, Future of Law *\u003cbr\u003eEveryone interested in the future well-being of society must read this thoroughly researched and compelling book - to understand how technology can and will be used to enable the public to do far more for themselves. In reshaping our system of justice so that it can more cost-effectively underpin our democratic society and its prosperity, I have had the benefit of the Susskinds core thesis how to use technology not simply to enable the legal professions to do better what they now do, but to reshape justice for the benefit of the public. * Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales *\u003cbr\u003eIf the Susskinds are right we are at the start of a social revolution. Technology has begun to transform social class, economic activity, political discourse, working life and the limits of human activity. In The Future of the Professions they relentlessly and unyieldingly but also entertainingly and elegantly set about proving their point. I started knowing that their argument was important, I finished convinced that it was right. This is a necessary book. 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References Further Reading Acknowledgements","brand":"Reaktion Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741661081943,"sku":"9781789142297","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789142297.jpg?v=1720058328"},{"product_id":"dance-of-the-photons-einstein-entanglement-and-quantum-teleportation-9781802063684","title":"Dance of the Photons: Einstein, Entanglement and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Nobel Laureate explains quantum entanglement and teleportation and why Einstein was wrong about the nature of reality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the true nature of reality? 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Taking some of the most complex ideas from cutting-edge science, Zeilinger provides simple and clear explanations that in no way compromise the fundamental concepts -- Jeremy L. O'Brian * Science *\u003cbr\u003eFor more than eighty years the bizarre features of the description of nature at the atomic level given by quantum mechanics have puzzled and fascinated the physics community, but it is only in recent years that many of these features have been verified by experiment. This delightful little book, by one of the world's leading practitioners in this area, explains these recent advances in a way that should be accessible even to readers with no physics background -- Anthony J. Leggett, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics\u003cbr\u003eAn exciting new perspective. He is one of the leading investigators into the foundations and consequences of quantum theory. 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Highly recommended.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The best thing I have read on predictions . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e is an indispensable guide to this indispensable activity.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe techniques and habits of mind set out in this book are a gift to anyone who has to think about what the future might bring. In other words, to everyone. * Economist *\u003cbr\u003eA terrific piece of work that deserves to be widely read . . . Highly recommended. * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eThis marvelous book tells an exciting story of ordinary people beating experts in a very serious game. It is also a manual for thinking clearly in an uncertain world.  Read it. -- Daniel Kahneman\u003cbr\u003eFull of excellent advice – it is the best thing I have read on predictions . . . \u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable guide to this indispensable activity. * The Times *\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Tetlock has transformed the science of prediction. * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eThe most important book on decision making since Daniel Kahneman's \u003ci\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow\u003c\/i\u003e. * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eFascinating and breezily written. * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting \u003c\/i\u003eis a fascinating book. * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting\u003c\/i\u003e is a very good book. In fact it is essential reading. * Management Today *\u003cbr\u003eThe best way to know if an idea is right is to see if it predicts the future. But which ideas, which methods, which people have a track record of non-obvious predictions vindicated by the course of events? The answers will surprise you, and they have radical implications for politics, policy, journalism, education, and even epistemology – how we can best gain knowledge about the world. The casual style of \u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting \u003c\/i\u003ebelies the profundity of its message. -- Steven Pinker\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare book that will make you smarter and wiser. One of the giants of behavioral science reveals how to improve at predicting the future. -- Adam Grant\u003cbr\u003eThe material in \u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting \u003c\/i\u003eis new, and includes a compendium of best practices for prediction . . . [It offers] us all an opportunity to understand and react more intelligently to the confusing world around us. * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eTetlock's 'Ten Commandments For Aspiring Superforecasters' should probably have a place of honor in most business meeting rooms. * Forbes *\u003cbr\u003eThere isn't a social scientist in the world I admire more than Phil Tetlock. -- Tim Harford\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting \u003c\/i\u003eis the most important scientific study I’ve ever read on prediction. * Bloomberg View *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating study of what it is that makes some forecasters consistently better than others. * International Politico *\u003cbr\u003eTetlock's work is fascinating and important, and he and Gardner have written it up with verve. - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003e -- Stephen Cave\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting \u003c\/i\u003eby Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner, is one of the most interesting business and finance books published in 2015. -- John Kay * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe lessons of superforecasting are keenly relevant to huge swathes of our lives. -- Matthew Syed * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eTetlock writes boldly about wanting to improve what he sees as the bloated, expensive – and not terribly accurate – intelligence apparatus that advises our politicians and drives global affairs. * City A.M. *\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Tetlock’s \u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting \u003c\/i\u003eis a common-sense guide to thinking about decision-making and the future by a man who knows this terrain like no one else. -- Books of the Year * Bloomberg Business *\u003cbr\u003eTetlock and Gardner believe anyone can improve their forecasting ability by learning from the way they work. 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The lessons are directly relevant to business, finance, government, and politics. -- Books of the Year * Bloomberg Business *\u003cbr\u003eA scientific analysis of the ancient art of divination which shows that forecasting is a talent. -- Books of the Year * Economist *\u003cbr\u003eCaptivating . . . [Tetlock's] writing is so engaging and his argument so tantalizing, readers will quickly be drawn into the challenge . . . A must-read field guide for the intellectually curious. * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eA top choice [for best book of 2015] among the world’s biggest names in finance and economics . . . Eurasia Group founder Ian Bremmer, Deutsche Bank Chief U.S. Economist Joe LaVorgna, and Citigroup Vice Chairman Peter Orszag were among those giving it a thumbs-up. * Bloomberg Businessweek *\u003cbr\u003eJust as modern medicine began when a farsighted few began to collect data and keep track of outcomes, to trust objective 'scoring' over their own intuitions, it's time now for similar demands to be made of the experts who lead public opinion. It's time for evidence-based forecasting. * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eTetlock and his colleagues [have] found that there is such a thing as foresight, and it’s not a gift that’s bestowed upon special people, but is a skill that can be learned and developed . . . To obtain this apparent superpower does not take a PhD or an exceptionally high IQ; it takes a certain mindset. * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting\u003c\/i\u003e is a very good book. In fact it is essential reading - which I have never said in any of my previous Management Today reviews . . . It should be on every manager's and investor's reading list around the topics du jour of decision-making, prediction and behavioural economics. -- Andrew Wileman * Management Today *\u003cbr\u003eRead Philip Tetlock’s \u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting\u003c\/i\u003e, instead of political pundits who don’t what they’re talking about. -- Dominic Cummings\u003cbr\u003eWe should indeed apply superforecasting more systematically to government. Like systematic opinion polling, it is an aid to decision-makers and informed debate. It is ideologically neutral, unless you have a bias in favour of ignorance. This is all good. -- Andrew Adonis * Independent *","brand":"Cornerstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742231343447,"sku":"9781847947154","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781847947154.jpg?v=1720060561"},{"product_id":"future-files-a-brief-history-of-the-next-50-years-9781857885347","title":"Future Files: A Brief History of the Next 50","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWlliam Gladwell meets Alvin Toffler in this lively, provocative and witty look at our possible futures. Filled with provocative forecasts about how the world might change in the next half century, \u003ci\u003eFuture Files\u003c\/i\u003e examines emerging patterns and developments in society, technology, economy, and business, and makes educated speculations as to where they might take us. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is indispensable to business analysts, strategists and organisations who need to stay ahead of the game as well as providing rich and fascinating material for dinner party conversations. Will machines become more intelligent than humans, and even be able to 'read' our minds? Will food in our fridge speak to each other using radio waves, then come up with options for tonight's menu? Is there a looming environmental crisis where Planet Earth is doomed? Would you like a pill that improves your memory? ...Or a moistened tissue that could erase a bad day? Would you feel safer if your front door could tell you whether the person knocking is not a stranger? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are just some of the provocative forecasts about how the world might change in the next half century which Richard Watson explores in \"\u003ci\u003eFuture Files\u003c\/i\u003e\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCheaper than a crystal ball and twice as fun...Part Jules Verne, part Malcolm Gladwell, Watson has a puckish sense of humor and his book is a thought-provoking, laughter-inducing delight. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eA must read. Well written and concise predictions. * MediaFuturist *\u003cbr\u003eFuturologist Richard Watson takes us on a thought-provoking journey into tomorrow's world. -- Ellen Sideri, Founder \u0026amp; CEO, ESP Trendlab, New York * Daily Telegraph *","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742351307095,"sku":"9781857885347","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781857885347.jpg?v=1720061044"},{"product_id":"designing-regenerative-cultures-9781909470774","title":"Designing Regenerative Cultures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures - and how to put them right. The book covers the finance system, agriculture, design, ecology, economy, sustainability, organizations and society at large.  In it, Daniel Wahl explores ways in which we can reframe and understand the crises that we currently face and explores how we can live our way into the future. Moving from patterns of thinking and believing to our practice of education, design and community living, he systematically shows how we can stop chasing the mirage of certainty and control in a complex and unpredictable world. The book asks how can we collaborate in the creation of diverse regenerative cultures adapted to the unique biocultural conditions of place? How can we create conditions conducive to life?                                                                                                                                                                                                    \"This book is a valuable contribution to the important discussion of the worldview and value system we need to redesign our businesses, economies, and technologies - in fact, our entire culture - so as to make them regenerative rather than destructive.\" Fritjof Capra, author of The Web of Life, coauthor of The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision.                                                       \"This is an excellent addition to the literature on ecological design and it will certainly form a keystone in the foundations of the new MA in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College, Devon. It not only contains a wealth of ideas on what Dr Wahl has termed 'Designing Regenerative Cultures' but what is probably more important, it provides some stimulating new ways of looking at persistent problems in our contemporary culture and hence opens up new ways of thinking and acting in the future.\" Seaton Baxter OBE, Professor in Ecological Design Thinking, Schumacher College, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Daniel's book Designing Regenerative Cultures is a wonderful and well-referenced primer for a new paradigm.\" Satish Kumar   \"Clearly our ways of thinking have gotten us in some trouble--here are concrete suggestions for some new habits of mind that could help us climb out of our hole!\";Bill McKibben, author: Eaarth - Making a Life on a Tough New Planet; co-founder 350.org, and Schumann Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury College    \"This is an impressive, broad and forward looking book that integrates design thinking with a diverse range of contemporary and innovative ideas  around sustainability, ecology and transformation. Its attention to not just the problems, but also to how address them is timely and much needed. As such the book is now one of the main core programme texts for our MSc Sustainability at the University of Dundee.\"  Professor Ioan Fazey, Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience, University of Dundee.    \"Daniel Wahl... has the capacity to explain complex and subtle subjects such as systems theory, regenerative design, holistic management, biomimicry, the circular economy, quantum theory ... and much more, succinctly.  There are so many paragraphs in this book that I highlighted to return to and savour later on. He is also well versed in the integral, holistic worldview and the processes which support the birth of a new consciousness that will enable these regenerative shifts. His book is not only a collection of well articulated ideas, it is a litany of so many of the world's best projects that are already in existence, balancing theory with practice. There is an unstoppable optimism implicit in this book, however care-worn and cynical the reader may feel.\"  Maddy Harland in Permaculture Magazine.     \"Designing Regenerative Cultures has gained international acknowledgement for its pragmatic approach to the subject, reframing and questioning the current approaches to the challenges that humankind is currently facing with deeper understanding of the possible solutions surfacing with regenerative design.\"    UNESCO Global Action Programme on ESD Aug 2016    \"Daniel Wahl has had an important insight that makes this book an essential read for anyone trying to change the world. The necessary catalyst is in the title of this book: \"regenerative systems.\"    To quote Wahl, \"Sustainability is not a fixed state to reach and then maintain, it is a community-based learning process aimed at increasing the health and resilience of our communities, our bioregional economies, ecosystems, and of the planetary life-support system as a whole.\"    This is the core realization of Rob Hopkins (Transition Handbook) and David Fleming (Lean Logic) as well, but Wahl's book gets to the assembly language programming, explaining how ecological literacy and the social, technological, and entrepreneurial skills required for the transition are the entry point that leads to everything else. Arguably ecological literacy is already the foundation of much that is new in the world of industrial design - it is called biomimicry.    Biological and ecological design intelligence is starting to reinvent the way we design communities, businesses, cities, and industries. This book gets out in front of that with the larger picture. We need to do these things, now, or we may not be here in another century.    Wahl says, \"We need to dare to envision a sustainable world, by re-designing our food systems, transport systems, energy systems, economic systems, and education systems, but most of all, we need to re-envision how we collaborate and how we relate to each other and the natural world.\"    Whether we have time to make this unprecedented change in our social contract is still in doubt. Set your doubts aside for the moment and let this book give you a sense of \"... but what if?\"    If we are going to get this right, it will begin here.\"    Reviewed by Albert Bates, Ecovillage and Permaculture Pioneer, Right Livelihood Award Winner, and author of Climate in Crisis.    \"6 Star Handbook for Saving Civilization \u0026amp; Earth.  This book makes the jump from 5 stars (generally I don't bother to review a book if it is not a four or five star read) to 6 stars - my top ten percent - because of the combination of Questions Asked, glorious color graphics, and the total holistic nature of the book - this is easily a PhD thesis in holistic analytics, true cost economics, and open source everything engineering. Indeed, this book could be used as a first-year reference across any humanities and science domain, they would be the better for it.    It is of value to ministers of government, managers of corporations, administrators of non-profit and educational organizations, labor union and religious stewards, and every single citizen planning to be alive in five years and beyond.\"    Reviewed by Robert David Steele on the Public Intelligence Blog and Amazon     \"Daniel Wahl has compiled a great deal of useful information in a masterful synthesis. That alone is a significant accomplishment, but he's given us more than that. Designing Regenerative Cultures describes the doorway to a possible, indeed, necessary future. We are not fated to the dystopia in prospect. We have, as he writes, the capacity to design and to organize our societies to protect, enhance, and celebrate life. The blueprint was there all along. The awareness of our possibilities is growing. The art and sciences of ecological design are flourishing. The choice, as always, is ours and that of those who will follow.\"    From the Foreword by David Orr (environmentalist and Paul Sears Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College and a James Marsh Professor at the University of Vermont).     \"This book is a treasure  for everyone who is looking for a guide to  more sustainable living and a roadmap for re-designing our societies ,  regenerating  our communities , cities and societies  in harmony with natural systems and our home planet.  Author Daniel Wahl has deep experience to  share and his knowledge  in this beautiful book will  help all those aspiring to  be  responsible global citizens working for our common future.\"    Hazel Henderson, author and President, Ethical Markets Media , Certified B. Corporation, USA \u0026amp; Brazil    \"Daniel Wahl's Designing Regenerative Cultures provides an exhaustive review of current thinking on our global challenges as well as a refreshing approach to how we can \"live into the questions\" that will help us create a beautiful future.  Anyone working in sustainability or social innovation will find this book to be a tremendously useful reference and provocative guide for framing regenerative solutions.  It is a wonderful blend of passionate vision and practical insight.\"    Denise K. DeLuca, Co-Founder \u0026amp; Director, BCI (Biomimicry for Creative Innovation)    \"The world is converging on integration and systems thinking, and regeneration of the world is the battle cry of any sentient being in the 21st century. Daniel Wahl provides good insights and inspirations on the index of possibilities -in mass scale regeneration of nature and society.\"    Marcin Jakubowski, PhD, Founder \u0026amp; Executive Director of Open Source Ecology.    Designing Regenerative Cultures is a wide ranging synthesis of key knowledge to take us into a more resourceful 21st Century. The book brings forth multiple perspectives on the ultimate challenge of our time. This living material will help one get beyond the bread and circus approach that the mainstream media is foisting upon us, and thereby subtlety turning us into bloated modern Romans without a clue on what really matters, let alone the power to create what matters.    Shifting from a narrative of separation and scarcity, to interbeing and abundance  opens the conceptual door to the next phase of the human enterprise.    Read and absorb this powerful treatise, and learn from the dynamic context  Daniel Wahl has created with the publication of his new book.    Christopher Zelov conceived and produced the award winning film 'Ecological Design: Inventing the Future'. Recent projects include: A Visit With Magnus, City 21, and Design Outlaws.     \"To me as a life-long activist nourished on systems thinking and Buddhist teachings, this is one of the most intellectually exciting and soul stirring books I've read in years.   I had the sense of drinking it, with pleasure and surprise, not having known what I'd so thirsted for.  br\u0026gt; By starting with questions and keeping to questions throughout, Daniel  engages the reader, and by example frees her from striving for, or pretending to know, any final answers.  This approach -- in itself a rare lesson in systems epistemology - invites trust, openness, and a restructuring of the mind.    Among the gifts for which I am especially grateful are these:  Conceptual tools for perceiving and experiencing our mutual belonging ,  and especially what I've come to call the great reciprocity at the heart of the universe.  The ways Goethe, Bortoft, Bateson, Maturana, and Varela are brought in, and key insights mediated with economy  and clarity.  The abundant  evidence of the Great Turning, the manifold  transition underway to a life-sustaining culture.  And, especially valuable to those of an apocalyptic bent like myself,  the 'adaptive cycle' of resilient systems, showing  that at 'the edge of chaos' comes opportunity  for the emergence of greater  complexity and intelligence.    These are but a few of the ways in which this remarkable book will enrich my thought, my teaching, and my life in this turbulent world of ours.\"    Joanna Macy, environmental activist, scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology and author of World as Lover, World as Self and numerous other books.    \"This is a seriously rich source of perspective on the nature of whole system design. The future is already here and Daniel Wahl has synthesized the wide ranging progress in the emerging field of `regenerating wholeness'. There is a lot of positive and effective activity happening around the planet! Of particular note, the title addresses \"us\" as a significant and often missing leverage point in our work towards regenerative relationships: our cultural ability to become collaborative weavers, integral to evolving a condition of long-lasting health. This book shows the powerful potential of how all these dimensions of wholeness are coming together.\"    Bill Reed, Regenesis Group    \"Life on the Planet has sustained itself for billions of years by continually regenerating itself. Our modern industrial culture has interfered with these natural processes to the point of causing massive extinctions of species and threatening our very survival. This book is a valuable contribution to the important discussion of the worldview and value system we need to redesign our businesses, economies, and technologies - in fact, our entire culture - so as to make them regenerative rather than destructive.\"    Fritjof Capra, author of The Web of Life, coauthor of The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD ~ David Orr FOREWORD ~ Graham Leicester INTRODUCTION                         CHAPTER 1 - Living the Questions: Why change the narrative now? Questioning dangerous ideologies Facing complexity means befriending uncertainty and ambiguity Caring for Earth is caring for ourselves and our community Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world The 'why' will guide the 'what' and the 'how'Spirituality, soul and solitude in nature\t Sustainability as a learning journey: pilgrims and apprentices\t Sustainability is not enough; we need regenerative cultures!\t                                CHAPTER 2 - Why choose transformative over sustaining innovation?\t The Three Horizons of innovation and culture change\t Evaluating disruptive innovation in the age of transition\t Transformative innovation is about deep questioning\t Sensitivity to scale, uniqueness of place and local culture\t The transformative power of social innovation\t Collaborative consumption and peer-to-peer collaboration\t Facilitating systems innovation and culture change\t                        CHAPTER 3 - Why do we need to think and act more systemically?\t Believing is seeing and seeing is believing\t The whole is more than the sum of its parts\t From the 'crisis of perception' to the 'systems view of life'\t Interbeing\t How can we participate appropriately in complex systems?\t The IFF World System Model\t Learning to see nature everywhere\t Being a process, and seeing in relationships\t                         CHAPTER 4 -  Why nurture resilience and whole-systems health?\t Rolling back Earth Overshoot Day\t Learning to live within planetary boundaries\t What exactly are resilience and transformative resilience?\t The adaptive cycle as a dynamic map for resilience thinking\t Panarchy: a scale-linking perspective of systemic transformation\t Local and regional community resilience building is going global\t How can we nurture transformative resilience?\t From control and prediction to conscious participation, foresight and anticipation\t                                    CHAPTER 5 - Why take a design-based approach?\t Design education enables cultural transformation\t Design is where theory and practice meet\t Design follows worldview and worldview follows design\t Ethics and design for regenerative cultures\t Aesthetics and design\t Emergence and design\t Designing for positive emergence (a case study)\t Scale-linking, salutogenic design for resilience\t The resurgence of a culture of makers: re-localizing production Collective visioning and design conversations change culture\t                          CHAPTER 6 - How can we learn to better design as nature?\t Ecoliteracy: Learning from living systems\t Valuing traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous wisdom\t How does life create conditions conducive to life?\t Biologically Inspired Innovation\t Green chemistry and material science\t Biologically inspired product design\t Biomimetic architecture\t Nature's whole system optimization informs community design\t Living the questions together creates community\t Industrial ecology and symbiosis are closing the loops\t Ecologically informed urban and regional planning  \t                     CHAPTER 7 - Why are regenerative cultures rooted in cooperation?\t Redesigning agriculture for food sovereignty and subsidiarity \tRegenerative agriculture: effective responses to climate change\t Learning from and mimicking healthy ecosystems\t Redesigning economics based on ecology\t Creating circular economies\t Towards a regenerative economy\t Thriving communities and the solidarity economy\t Shifting from quantitative to qualitative growth\t Valuing the commons by cooperatively sharing the gifts of life\t Earth Law: the enabling constraints of collective living\tLife's collaborative lessons transform business\t Co-creating regenerative enterprises\t Collaboration and empathy as evolutionary success stories\t Activism revisited: conscious participation and collective intelligence\t We are coming back to life and this changes everything\t Learning to listen deeply\t Inner and outer resilience\t  CONCLUSION - Regenerative cultures are about thriving together","brand":"Triarchy Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742530056535,"sku":"9781909470774","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781909470774.jpg?v=1720061778"},{"product_id":"dancing-at-the-edge-competence-culture-and-organization-in-the-21st-century-9781911193678","title":"Dancing at the Edge: Competence, Culture and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his 1980 essay, The World of Tomorrow and the Person of Tomorrow, the psychologist Carl Rogers contemplated the future. 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The book is based on the authors' extensive research and their practical experience observing the qualities demonstrated by some of today's most successful cultural, political and business leaders. They write of `persons of tomorrow' that they have witnessed:  \"We find that people who are thriving in the contemporary world, who give us the sense of having it all together and being able to act effectively and with good spirit in challenging circumstances, have some identifiable characteristics in common... They are the people already among us who inhabit the complex and messy problems of the 21st century in a more expansive way than their colleagues. They do not reduce such problems to the scale of the tools available to them, or hide behind those tools when they know they are partial and inadequate. 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It is an image that conveys the subtle discipline required of the `person of tomorrow' - an artistry that, they argue, is essential to restore hope in the future.","brand":"Triarchy Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742603030871,"sku":"9781911193678","price":13.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781911193678.jpg?v=1720062095"},{"product_id":"the-worst-is-yet-to-come-a-post-capitalist-survival-guide-9781912248322","title":"The Worst Is Yet to Come: A Post-Capitalist","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Worst is Yet to Come explores the disturbing possibility that the current crisis of neoliberal capitalism isn't going to spawn an emancipatory renaissance, but a world that is much, much worse.  Wealthy CEOs see it. They've been purchasing isolated bunker-retreats in New Zealand for when the shit goes down. 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