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What Future: The Year's Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent Our Future [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, Illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-Nov-2017
  • Kirjastus: Phoneme
  • ISBN-10: 1944700455
  • ISBN-13: 9781944700454
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, Illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-Nov-2017
  • Kirjastus: Phoneme
  • ISBN-10: 1944700455
  • ISBN-13: 9781944700454
An anthology of writing that looks at the interplay between technology and our environment to imagine the future and feature the innovators creating the future

The future is here and, frankly, it sucks. Without doubt, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge, one in which we will have to ask ourselves what constitutes a meaningful life. We must do the hard work of imagining a different kind of reality for ourselves. It's work that anticipates the worst but sees hope on the other side of catastrophe, or at least possibility; that presumes disaster and says, now what A best-of-the-year anthology, What Future collects long-form journalism and essay writing that address a wide range of topics crucial to our future, from environmental and political, to human health and animal rights, to technology and the economy. What Future is committed to a variety of diverse perspectives; and will include new writing by and about the scientists, writers, journalists, and philosophers who are proposing the options that lay not just ahead, but beyond. The anthology features new writing by and about the scientists, writers, journalists, and philosophers who are proposing the options that lay not just ahead, but beyond us. From the post-fossil fuel economy to the mushroom death suit, how can humanity create new technologies while also processing what already exists. These visions of the future celebrate the boldest and most courageous voices that both challenge the current state of our planet and supply possibilities for how it might become something else.
Introduction 9(19)
Our Generation Ships Will Sink
28(17)
Kim Stanley Robinson
My Life on (Simulated) Mars
45(10)
Sheyna Gifford
Genetic Engineering to Clash with Evolution
55(10)
Brooke Borel
The Virtual World in a Real Body
65(8)
Michael W. Clune
The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain---and Almost Lost His Mind
73(18)
Daniel Engber
Our Automated Future
91(12)
Elizabeth Kolbert
Let Them Drink Blood
103(10)
A. M. Gittlitz
Black Americans and Encryption: The Stakes Are Higher than Apple v. FBI
113(8)
Malkia Cyril
Policing the Future: In the Aftermath of Ferguson, St. Louis Cops Embrace Crime-Predicting Software
121(12)
Maurice Chammah
Donald Trump Ushers in the Anti-Future Age
133(6)
Hal Niedzviecki
The Battle for the Great Apes: Inside the Fight for Non-Human Rights
139(22)
George Johnson
One Swede Will Kill Cash Forever---Unless His Foe Saves It from Extinction
161(14)
Mallory Pickett
The One-Armed Robot That Will Look After Me Until I Die
175(16)
Geoff Watts
Selfless Devotion
191(10)
Janna Avner
What Would Self-Driving Cars Mean for Women in Saudi Arabia?
201(8)
Sarah Aziza
Fear of a Feminist Future
209(12)
Laurie Penny
The Disturbing Science Behind Subconscious Gender Bias
221(12)
Shoshana Kordova
Recalculating the Climate Math
233(8)
Bill McKibben
The Future Consumed: The Curse of Consumption Will Save the World, If Consumers Don't Eat It First
241(12)
David Biello
Can Wind and Solar Fuel Africa's Future?
253(12)
Erica Gies
Anthropocene City: Houston as Hyperobject (or, When the Next Hurricane Hits Texas)
265(22)
Roy Scranton
Hauntings in the Anthropocene: An Initial Exploration
287
Jeff VanderMeer
Torie Bosch is the editor of Future Tense, a project of Slate, New America, and Arizona State that looks at the implications of new technologies.Roy Scranton is the author of the novel War Porn (Soho Press, 2016) and the philosophical essay Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights, 2015). He is also one of the editors of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War (Da Capo, 2013).