2025: Scenarios of Global and U.S.Society Reshaped by Science and Technology - Hardcover

Coates, Joseph F.; Etc.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1886939098 ISBN 13: 9781886939097

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press / The Inter-American Development Bank, 2010

Synopsis

Written in the form of a history book, 2025 is an engaging retropective of the years 1990-2025. Examining trends in medicine, housing, food service, economics, entertainment, industry, education, and other key aspects of society, this book paints a fascinating picture of the future. Thorough, upbeat, and very readable, 2025 is the remarkable result of five years compiling and evaluating global and regional forecasts in many different disciplines. The authors offer a well-balanced, integrated forecast of how science and technology will affect the United States and the rest of the world over the next three decades.

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Synopsis:

This volume offers a forecast of how science and technology will affect the US and the rest of the world over the next three decades. The authors argue that change will be driven by information technology, materials technology, genetics, energy technology, and environmentalism. Annotation c. by Book

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press / The Inter-American Development Bank
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1886939098
• ISBN 13: 9781886939097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 526