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Top international organisations including UBS and the World Bank have consulted Patrick Dixon on how to ‘future proof’ their work. Now his ground breaking financial and ethical discoveries are available to a wider audience in Futurewise.
As the millennium approaches, everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual, corporate and world scale, how society changes will affect us all profoundly. Make the wrong choice and the results could be devastating.
Patrick Dixon considers six faces of the future in Futurewise as if they are the faces of a cube. The world will be Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical (a new morality). He explains the practical results of these including everything from the hours in the working week to artificial pregnancies. From business planning on a company scale to choices about a personal pension, these changes will have an impact on everyone. Wealth, health, cultures, technology, travel, morality – all are considered in this major new study.
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As the millennium approaches, everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual, corporate and world scale, how society changes will affect us all profoundly. Make the wrong choice and the results could be devastating. Patrick Dixon considers six faces of the future in this volume as if they are the faces of a cube. The world will be Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical (a new morality). He explains the practical results of these, including everything from the hours in the working week to artificial pregnancies. From business planning on a company scale to choices about a personal pension, these changes will have an impact on everyone. Wealth, health, cultures, technology, travel, morality - all are considered in this study.
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This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological twentieth century society into something altogether new and different.
Are you ready for the future?
· Futurewise... planning to change tomorrow
· Futurewise... making choices that will last
· Futurewise... understanding trends in order to be in control
· Futurewise... thinking ahead at every level, personal and corporate
· Futurewise... securing the future for yourself and your family
How Futurewise are you?
How Futurewise is your company?
Look ahead and measure your plans against the six faces of the future.
fast... Urban... Tribal... Radical... Ethical
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0002740079
- ISBN 13 9780002740074
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