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Future - A Recent History (Paperback)
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Future - A Recent History (Paperback)
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The future is not a fixed idea but a highly variable one that
reflects the values of those who are imagining it. By studying the
ways that visionaries imagined the future-particularly that of
America-in the past century, much can be learned about the cultural
dynamics of the time. In this social history, Lawrence R. Samuel
examines the future visions of intellectuals, artists, scientists,
businesspeople, and others to tell a chronological story about the
history of the future in the past century. He defines six separate
eras of future narratives from 1920 to the present day, and argues
that the milestones reached during these years-especially related
to air and space travel, atomic and nuclear weapons, the women's
and civil rights movements, and the advent of biological and
genetic engineering-sparked the possibilities of tomorrow in the
public's imagination, and helped make the twentieth century the
first century to be significantly more about the future than the
past. The idea of the future grew both in volume and importance as
it rode the technological wave into the new millennium, and the
author tracks the process by which most people, to some degree,
have now become futurists as the need to anticipate tomorrow
accelerates.
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