A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present

Bloomsbury presents A Century of Tomorrows written and read by Glenn Adamson An acclaimed cultural historian takes readers on an intellectual thrill ride through the kaleidoscopic story of futurology, a surprisingly powerful force in the modern world. For millennia, predicting the future was the province of priests and prophets, the realm of astrologers and seers. Then, in the twentieth century, futurologists emerged, claiming that data and design could make planning into a rational certain...