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buckycrazy23
Posted January 4, 2010
Futurecast helps explain economic issues
This book was very insightful and I learned a ton of information after just a few pages. Fururecast takes a global view on advanced economies and other pressing issues affecting countries. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in why many advanced countries have had slowed economies. This book does an excellent job explaining how countries and ideas are related and why the world is becoming more intertwined daily. This book really makes you imagine how the next ten to fifteen years will play out and then we will see how accurate Futurecast is.
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Futurecast
For anyone who wants to better understand the larger picture of the social economic and political world inwhich we live. I highly recommend it. Most of us do not have the opportunity to view the economic situations of other nations and our relationships with them.
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This was written before the economic crash of 2008, but it is no less relevant. -
Sobering predictions for the next 12 years
This is a sobering book. Many futurists evoke glowing or terrifying futures, but are hazy on the details of how the world will get from here to there. Not this one. Robert Shapiro is extremely specific. He grounds his predictions in his detailed knowledge of world events, explains the assumptions behind his reasoning, and admits where and how his forecasts may go wrong. The result is not easy reading: Shapiro's prose is dense and his topics grim. However, his book is highly useful. Anyone engaged in serious planning for the future should read it, so getAbstract recommends it to executives, investors and concerned citizens of the world who want to know where new trends will originate.
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