In What’s Your Moonshot? trend and innovation strategist John Sanei explains how to ask the bigger, bolder, more courageous questions that will help you thrive – rather than merely survive – in our exponentially changing times.

With a future-focused victor mindset, Sanei decodes the mega-trends that are reshaping human behaviour and the way we do business – not to mention, the way we live our lives. He then explains how to innovate your business with the ultimate aim of becoming the new type of billionaire: someone who positively affects billions of people. As the foundations of modern economies – transportation, communication and energy – start becoming free or virtually free, massive transformative ideas can now be driven by individual ambition and determination. No longer the sole domain of nations and global organisations, these pioneering, game-changing missions – or Moonshots – are defined by thinking big to drive change and shape the future.

So the real question is: WHAT’S YOUR MOONSHOT?

Das vorliegende Buch enthalt aktuelle Beitrage aus dem Friedensforschungszentrum Tamera in Portugal. In einer Zeit, in der die Medien voll sind von Kriegs- und Katastrophenmeldungen, offnet sich hier ein geistiges Tor zu einer anderen Entwicklungsmoglichkeit: Unser Planet mit seinen Menschen und Tieren, seinen Landschaften und Gewassern ist heilbar, wenn wir diese Heilung mit aller Kraft wollen und umsetzen. Die einzelnen Beitrage sind Studientexte der Schule Terra Nova. Weltweit haben Gruppen von Menschen be-gonnen, die vorliegenden Gedanken zu studieren und in ihren Freundeskreisen und Netzwerken zu verbreiten. Gemeinsam arbeiten sie daran, ein globales Bewusstsein daruber aufzubauen, dass und wie ein profunder Systemwechsel gelingen kann. Es ist eine neue Art von Revolution. Sie ist ohne Vorbild. Fast noch im Verborgenen, undogmatisch und offen fur alle, die sich ihr anschliessen wollen, bahnt sich hier ein neuer menschheitlicher Impuls seinen W

From recent disaster movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact to cult movements such as those of Jim Jones and David Koresh, apocalyptic images surround us as we prepare to mark the end of the current millennium. In Fearful Hope: Approaching the New Millennium editors Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie LeMoine provide a wide range of thought-provoking essays probing the meaning and significance of millennial expectations and apocalyptic visions.

From John J. Collins's essay on the sense of ending in pre-Christian Judaism to Paul Boyer's discussion of apocalyptic fears and foreboding in the twentieth century, Fearful Hope offers fresh insight on millennial thinking in fields ranging from history and literature to philosophy, cinema, and politics. These essays explore the apocalyptic in both religious and secular culture, providing illuminating illustrations from biblical prophets, medieval manuscripts, cult movements, and even the current obsession with conspiracy in television shows like The X-Files. Finally, Archbishop Rembert Weakland and Bishop Johannes Hempel stress the importance of maintaining hope in our own age, the latter with particular reference to the fall of the Communist regime in East Germany.

A popular cliche in contemporary public discourse holds that we live in a time of increasing uncertainty; that the next catastrophe is perpetually imminent and yet increasingly beyond our capacity to foresee. The future, in short, is becoming much more difficult to control. One consequence of this increasingly widespread understanding of the future is that societies have turned to anticipatory governance strategies based on such concepts as risk management, the precautionary principle, and pre-emption to manage human affairs. This book takes an in-depth look at this trend by using the example of the 'pre-emptive security' strategies deployed in the post-9/11 War on Terror to develop a critical understanding of how the proliferation of such anticipatory governance strategies affects the way political power is organized and exercised. The book also makes a wider case for taking issues of time and the future more seriously in the study of contemporary global politics in particular and the social world more generally.

Humanity now stands at a crossroads between a world of unimaginable wonders and one of unprecedented terrors. The choices we make now will determine not only the shape of our future, but whether there will be, for us as a species, a future at all. But, if we are at such a crossroads, are we even properly aware of it? Governed by instincts rooted in the past, are we prepared to see what we need to see, to do what we need to do? As technology evolves, so must we; but how and in what direction? Are we unavoidably fated to trade liberty for security in ridding the world of terror and war? Humanity at the Crossroads attempts to answer all of these critical questions, while opening the dialogue for further debate. It arrives, in the process, at the startling conclusion that the very technology which threatens to destroy us, not merely its more favorable offshoots, is itself the catalyst for that better world we may yet hope to inhabit.

Todos venimos al mundo con un bello proyecto para realizar: ser nosotros mismos al maximo de las posibilidades existentes. Desde el mismo momento en que somos concebidos, la ley natural que rige la evolucion de lo vivo existente, nos posibilita -de conocerla y actuarla- el pleno desarrollo de nuestras capacidades y habilidades, ofreciendonos, para cada edad, todo un universo, un amplisimo abanico de puertas que abrir y que conquistar, y permitiendonos a lo largo de la vida, auparnos hacia cotas de mayor felicidad. Y esto, de manera universal y gratuita, para todos nosotros. Entonces, por que hay tantos seres humanos desgraciados e inconformes? Por que hay tantas personas que pasan por la vida con futilidad, como quien pasa el rato? Por que tantos piensan que este mundo es un valle de lagrimas en el cual la plenitud es imposible y utopica? Por que hay tanta gente enfadada con la vida? Por que la indiferencia, la insensibilidad, la envidia, la competitividad, el desamor y el nihilismo pasota? Y por ultimo, de vital importancia, por que la mayoria de nuestros ancianos no son felices porque sabios y sabios porque felices? Y por que cuando recordamos nuestra ninez, nos sentimos tantas veces perplejos, confundidos y desorientados cuando no amnesicos? Despues de mas de cuarenta anos de estudio, Preciada Azancot, escritora, pintora y creadora del MAT -Metamodelo de Analisis Transformacional-, ha dado con las esenciales y, por ende sencillas, respuestas a tantos "por que" y con ellas, nos brinda, amorosamente, las claves para una existencia plena. Seamos quien seamos, independientemente de nuestro sexo y de nuestra edad, "Un cielo de andar por casa - En cada fase de nuestra vida" nos desvelara la sencilla -porque esencial- ley natural de la vida humana: a cada edad su necesidad vital y esencial, insustituible si no se quieren tener graves carencias que nos hipotecarian la vida plena, y lo que es aun mas grave, nos convertirian en depredadores de nuestro entorno. Este libro nos permitira situarnos, de modo organico y natural, donde de verdad nos corresponde estar, donde de verdad nos sentiremos realizados, para asi ser felices y hacer mas felices a los que nos rodean. Ademas, tendremos a nuestra disposicion un mapa-guia para avanzar, siempre, hacia mas verdad, hacia mas felicidad, hacia un fluir mas natural y coherente, en suma. Preciada Azancot descubre que el ser humano tiene, de manera innata, una serie de necesidades que cubrir y de motivaciones que colmar, y que estas deben ser atendidas en un orden determinado. Este libro cubre las tres primeras necesidades de un total de seis, siendo las tres restantes analizadas en la segunda parte. La creadora del MAT eligio a su mejor alumno y socio, Antonio Galvez, para darle la replica y convertir el aprendizaje en dialogo universal.

Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: 'We'll Not Go Home Again' provides a framework for our fascination with the apocalyptic events. The popular appeal of the end of the world genre is clear in movies, novels, and television shows. Even our political debates over global warming, nuclear threats, and pandemic disease reflect a concern about the possibility of such events. This popular fascination is really a fascination with survival: how can we come out alive? And what would we do next? The end of the world is not about species death, but about beginning again. This book uses postapocalyptic fiction as a terrain for thinking about the state of nature: the hypothetical fiction that is the driving force behind the social contract. The first half of the book examines novels that tell the story of the move from the state of nature to civil society through a Hobbesian, a Lockean, or a Rousseauian lens, including Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, Malevil by Robert Merle, and Into the Forest by Jean Hegland. The latter half of the book examines Octavia Butler's postapocalyptic Parable series in which a new kind of social contract emerges, one built on the fact of human dependence and vulnerability.

About the book: An adventurous journey from the stone circle of Almendes in Portugal to the temples of Malta becomes a journey through a new hologram of history. Every event, every temple visit and also every difficulty is guided and thereby unexpected and unpredictable. Sabine Lichtenfels with her mediumistic talent shows simply and modestly what it means to travel in full trust in divine guidance. The temples of Malta act as antennae to the past for her and transmit descriptions and pictures of the culture that had once erected these buildings. This information gives a breathtaking view into a highly developed fulfilling and sensual life. And that at a time where we once thought that primitive people were running around with axes.At the center of this high archaic culture was care for all that lives. The strong current of Eros and the mutual joy between the genders was sacred to them. They knew neither private property nor separation. The body of the woman was like the body of the earth, nourishing and giving. Their religion was the celebration of life itself, from the first sunbeams in the morning until the sparking stars in the night. For thousands of years, their non-violent culture flourished, based on the friendship between the genders.For the author, this view into the past is simultaneously a start of a humane future. The temple of love is to be recreated in the light of modern knowledge, in practical life between men and women in model communities for a future without war.

This book debates the universe, the development of new technologies in the 21st century and the future of the human race. Dr Bolonkin shows that a human soul is only the information in a person s head. He offers a new unique method for re-writing the main brain information in chips without any damage to the human brain.

This is the scientific prediction of the non-biological (electronic) civilization and immortality of the human being. Such a prognosis is predicated upon a new law, discovered by the author, for the development of complex systems. According to this law, every self-copying system tends to be more complex than the previous system, provided that all external conditions remain the same. The consequences are disastrous: humanity will be replaced by a new civilization created by intellectual robots (which Dr Bolonkin refers to as "E-humans" and "E-beings"). These creatures, whose intellectual and mechanical abilities will far exceed those of man, will require neither food nor oxygen to sustain their existence. They may have the emotion. Capable of developing science, technology and their own intellectual abilities thousands of times faster than humans can, they will, in essence, be eternal.
Demonstrates that the problem of immortality can only be solved by changing the biological human into an artificial formDiscusses progress in robotics and other techologies"

ber das Buch: Aufbruch zur neuen Kultur Wenn das Leben gewinnt, wird es keiner Verlierer mehr geben. Wie geht es weiter nach dem Zusammenbruch der gro en Systeme? Der gro en u eren Systeme von Politik und Wirtschaft, Klima und Natur? Aber auch der gro en inneren Systeme von Glauben, Liebe und Denken? Die Antwort auf diese Fragen mu bestehen k nnen vor den vielen gescheiterten Antworten der Vergangenheit. Die Welt steht am Abgrund. Die Jugend von Kairo bis London, von Griechenland bis Chile, von der Rothschild Avenue, Tel Aviv bis zur Wall Street New York sucht neue Wege. Wenn der massiver Aufstand und Protest, der sich heute weltweit formiert, revolution re Kraft und gemeinsame Fl gel bekommen soll, wenn das Leben endlich siegen soll ber Krieg und Gewalt, dann brauchen wir eine Vorstellung davon, wie es weitergehen k nnte. Das vorliegende Buch bietet eine solche Vorstellung an. Es wurde vor fast 30 Jahren geschrieben. Wir glauben, das seine Zeit nun gekommen ist. Der Autor Dieter Duhm hat hier dem Leben selbst eine Stimme verliehen. Er hat es aufgesp rt hinter Dogmen und falscher Moral, hat ihm Wege gebahnt durch verh rtete Denkmuster und eingefrorene Herzen, die eine lebensfeindliche Epoche der patriarchalen Herrschaft in uns hinterlassen hat. Diese aber k nnte jetzt vorbei sein. Der Systemwechsel, der heute zu vollziehen ist, ist der tiefste und fundamentalste seit Jahrtausenden. Es ist ein Wechsel von der Macht, Leben zu vernichten hin zur Macht, Leben zu pflegen und zu sch tzen. Nur so hat dieser blaue Planet und alle seine Bewohner, auch der Mensch, eine Chance auf Zukunft. Wir w nschen diesem Buch, da es auf offene Ohren und Herzen trifft und seine Saat aus Humanit t und Anteilnahme weltweit aufgehen kann. Es ist ja mehr als ein Buch. Es ist eine Vorstellung davon, wie eine lebenswerte Zukunft auf der Erde aussehen k nnte. Der Autor hat sich selbst beim Wort genommen und sich gemeinsam mit Genossinnen und Genossen aufgemacht, diese Zukunftsidee in die Praxis umzusetzen. Der letzte Abschnitt dieses Buches zeigt in Stichworten, was heute, drei ig Jahre danach, aus dieser Pionierarbeit geworden ist.

How do we face the uncertainty and complexity of the future? An overly optimistic perspective can be motivating but easily dismissed as naive or shallow; the pessimistic outlook may be considered to be deeper and more 'knowing' but could lead to inaction. But limiting our visions of the future to simply one of these two 'branches' would mean adopting a position that is ultimately no more than a fatalistic rut. Facing The Fold is a collection of highly regarded journal essays about how scenario thinking uses the capacious space of the 'fold' to encourage thinking around alternative scenarios--to create the future we both want and need. Scenarios are not predictions, nor are they strategies. Scenarios are stories -- narratives of alternative futures, designed to highlight the risks and opportunities involved in specific strategic issues. According to Ogilvy, scenario planning has generally been considered an art, but here he discusses the extent to which it can also be considered an integral part of 'the new sciences', especially complexity science. The narrative of scenario planning is of particular importance to complexity practitioners. Like complexity approaches, the advantage of scenarios is that they take into account the values and the contextual complexity surrounding the community and provide a way to reflect on the consequences of any strategy changes. The book is divided into 3 clear sections: Section I is about the 'nuts and bolts' of scenario planning and, as outlined in the first chapter co-authored with Peter Schwartz, the steps involved in the practice of developing scenarios, and the key considerations to ensure successful scenario planning. Section II situates scenario planning in the larger context of the human sciences of anthropology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy and sociology. Section III offers a set of case studies--actual scenarios created for real projects. Lessons learnt from working in the public and the private sector are followed by two in-depth case studies on the future of higher education in California and K-12 public education in Seattle. The challenges and opportunities that were faced at the time are uncannily similar to current problems in the funding of education facilities around the world. Alternative scenarios to the momentum of increasing deficit and declining quality were developed at the time, and the author provides an afterword to show how these scenarios have held up over time. As Adam Kahane (Reos Partners and the University of Oxford) said in his review '...This wonderful collection of his writings is a most welcome and valuable contribution to the field.'

The European Union is the most successful supranational organization in history. It has reconciled former enemies, established a single market and a common currency, and reintegrated Central and Eastern Europe into the West. Yet the EU remains unsatisfying to its members and its partners. An economic giant but a political pygmy, it seems hamstrung by bureaucracy and a lack of connection to European publics.

In "Europe 2030," distinguished authors predict what the European Union will look like twenty years from new. A range of views is presented, foreseeing everything from slower growth and diminished power to actions that would make the EU a more vigorous, influential world play.

Contributors include Oksana Antonenko (International Institute for Strategic Studies), Jos? Manuel Durao Barroso (European Commission), Jos? Cutileiro (former secretary general, Western European Union), Joschka Fischer (former minister of foreign affairs, Germany), Charles Grant (Center for European Reform), Andrew Hilton (Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation), Jonathan Laurence (German Marshall Fund, Boston College and Brookings Institution), Rui Chancerelle de Machete (consititutional and administrative attorney), Hubert V?drine (former minister of foreign affairs, France), and Joseph H.H. Weiler (New York University).

Inhuman Thoughts is a philosophical exploration of the possibility of increasing the physiological and psychological capacities of humans to the point that they are no longer biologically, psychologically, or socially human. The movement is from the human through the trans-human, to the post-human. The tone is optimistic; Seidel argues that such an evolution would be of positive value on the whole. Seidel's initial argument supports the need for a comprehensive ethical theory, the success of which would parallel that of a large-scale scientific revolution, such as Newtonian mechanics. He elaborates the movement from the improved-but-still-human to the post-human, and philosophically examines speculated examples of post-human forms of life, including indefinitely extended life-span, parallel consciousness, altered perception, a-sociality, and a-sexuality. Inhuman Thoughts is directed at those interested in philosophical questions on human nature and the best life given the possibilities of that nature. Seidel's overall argument is that the most satisfactory answer to the latter question involves a transcendence of the present confines of human nature.

The author of The Modern Girl's Guide to Life asks fifty experts, artists, business leaders, trendsetters, doctors, athletes, environmentalists, and intellectuals

What will the next decade look like?

Where are we headed? That is the question professional trendspotter Jane Buckingham posed to fifty influential leaders in a wide variety of fields--and their responses are surprising, provocative, compelling, and important. The result of her conversations with some of the most fascinating men and women in America today, What's Next is an essential collection of highly individual perspectives on tomorrow's world, including:

Our world is changing faster than ever. The essential insights offered in What's Next can help us keep up--and stay ahead.

Acclaimed writer Reza Aslan's belief that American Islam may become the model for Islam throughout the rest of the world

Attorney Alan Dershowitz's views on the very scientific future of criminal defense law

Campaign adviser Joe Trippi's thoughts on how politics will be turned upside down . . .

and more

Our world is changing faster than ever. The essential insights offered in What's Next can help us keep up--and stay ahead.

Across America, especially in the aftermath of 9/11, parents rely on K12 schooling to prepare their children for the shocks, the perils, and especially the bright possibilities that are part of our warp-speed future. A new generation of school staffers is forging a fresh learning partnership with youngsters for whom creative computer-based schooling is as natural as breathing. Together, these staffers and students seek empowering ways to draw on futuristics, a pedagogy that makes the most of the study of tomorrow. Anticipate the School You Want offers pragmatic program ideas, along with many operational hints. Additionally, it shares a blueprint for developing the nation's first high school of the future and a design for conducting a biannual Futures Fair. America urgently needs an educational pathway for developing long-range forecasters, and Shostak provides recommendations for reaching that pathway. Strengthened by numerous annotated citations for articles, books, and Web sites, the book enables school staffers to draw on futuristics as they have always wanted to--ably, confidently, and with confidence that it makes a desirable, lasting difference.

El Imperativo Espiritual muestra que, al contrario de lo que piensa la mayoria de la gente, la historia tiene orden, direccion y sentido y el futuro es tan predecible como el tiempo de hoy.