Inventing The Future: How Man Can Survive — And Enjoy It
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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What does humanity's future hold, and do we possess the wisdom to shape it before it shapes us? In Inventing the Future, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dennis Gabor presents a bold and urgent vision of the challenges awaiting modern civilization, arguing that technological advancement, unchecked leisure, and the threat of nuclear annihilation demand not passive acceptance but active, intelligent foresight. Writing with the authority of a scientist and the conviction of a humanist, Gabor diagnoses the three great dangers of the post-industrial age — the bomb, overpopulation, and the age of leisure — and charts a course toward a world where mankind does not merely endure progress, but masters it. Gabor's work stands as a landmark of mid-twentieth-century futurist thought, bridging the disciplines of science, sociology, and philosophy with remarkable clarity and intellectual courage. His prose is precise yet accessible, reflecting the mind of a man equally at home in a laboratory and a library, and his arguments carry a prophetic weight that has only grown more resonant with time. Inventing the Future challenges every reader to ask themselves the defining question of the modern era: if the future can be invented, who will be brave enough to do it?
Author: Dennis Gabor
Format: Paperback
Genre: Science
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does humanity's future hold, and do we possess the wisdom to shape it before it shapes us? In Inventing the Future, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dennis Gabor presents a bold and urgent vision of the challenges awaiting modern civilization, arguing that technological advancement, unchecked leisure, and the threat of nuclear annihilation demand not passive acceptance but active, intelligent foresight. Writing with the authority of a scientist and the conviction of a humanist, Gabor diagnoses the three great dangers of the post-industrial age — the bomb, overpopulation, and the age of leisure — and charts a course toward a world where mankind does not merely endure progress, but masters it. Gabor's work stands as a landmark of mid-twentieth-century futurist thought, bridging the disciplines of science, sociology, and philosophy with remarkable clarity and intellectual courage. His prose is precise yet accessible, reflecting the mind of a man equally at home in a laboratory and a library, and his arguments carry a prophetic weight that has only grown more resonant with time. Inventing the Future challenges every reader to ask themselves the defining question of the modern era: if the future can be invented, who will be brave enough to do it?