What Future

The Year's Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent Our Future

Torie Bosch, Roy Scranton

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Phoneme
07 November 2017

Literary essays; Society & culture: general; Conservation of the environment; Global warming; Technology: general issues

One of The Smithsonian Magazine's Best Science Books of the Year The future is here and, frankly, it sucks. Without doubt, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge, one in which we will have to ask ourselves what constitutes a meaningful life. We must do the hard work of imagining a different kind of reality for ourselves. It's work that anticipates the worst but sees hope on the other side of catastrophe, or at least possibility; that presumes disaster and says, now what?

A best-of-the-year anthology, What Future is a collection of long-form journalism and essays published in 2016 that address a wide range of topics crucial to our future, from the environmental and political, to human health and animal rights, to technology and the economy. What Future includes writing from authors Elizabeth Kolbert, Jeff Vandermeer, Bill McKibben, Kim Stanley Robinson, as well as the scientists, journalists, and philosophers who are proposing the options that lay not just ahead, but beyond, in prestigious magazines and journals such as The Atlantic and The New Yorker.

Edited by: Torie Bosch, Roy Scranton
Imprint: Phoneme
Country of Publication: United States
ISBN: 9781944700454
ISBN 10: 1944700455
Publication Date: 07 November 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Torie Bosch is the editor of Future Tense, a project of Slate, New America, and Arizona State that looks at the implications of new technologies.Roy Scranton is the author of the novel War Porn (Soho Press, 2016) and the philosophical essay Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights, 2015). He is also one of the editors of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War (Da Capo, 2013).

Reviews for What Future: The Year's Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent Our Future

""A sober, no-holds-barred view of the world that lies ahead... provocative and studded with insights."" --Kirkus Reviews ""A vital collection of forward-looking writing...The overall tone is worried but optimistic. Don't look for utopian fantasies here--look for topical, intelligent projections of a realistically better future."" --Publishers Weekly