An entertaining and eye-opening collection of hundreds of new, emerging, and just invented words and phrases is designed to identify the latest trends in our social, cultural, economic, and political arenas and provide a cutting-edge glimpse of the world of tomorrow in such words as "Mannies," or male nannies, and "Permalence," the merging of permanent and freelance in the new economy. 50,000 first printing.
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An Extraordinary Advance Look at the Language of Tomorrow; Our revved-up world isn't just changing faster than ever before, it's creating new words and new language at breakneck speed. Now, Faith Popcorn, the futurist and trend authority who is known as the Nostradamus of marketing - and Adam Hanft, author, business strategist and media critic - have created the first-ever Dictionary of the Future, a thought-provoking, entertaining and richly informative collection of hundreds of new, emerging and just-invented words and terms. While traditional dictionaries wait for language to achieve familiarity, Dictionary of the Future is there first, enabling readers to identify the latest trends across all dimensions of the culture. Organised by familiar categories such as the arts, corporate business, education, health and technology - and by provocative new categories such as New Behaviours and New Structures - this dictionary allows readers to see the future taking shape before their eyes, word for word, idea by idea...
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