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We Deserve the Time and Space to be Human

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Abstract

The Future We Deserve is a collection of 100 essays from people of all walks of life discussing our world from amazingly different perspectives. Utopia or oblivion, plenty or famine, freedom or slavery? We do not know, but we do know that there is a vital thread of insight which emerges when people think together about what they really want, what matters most to them, and how we are all going to live in just a few years. In The Future We Deserve, authors pick a single facet of the future, and discuss something close, personal and real to them. There's little time to extrapolate in 500 words, pieces are short, direct and powerful. What emerges from this practice is an immediate and visceral sense of the immensity of the forces which shape the future, and the diversity and complexity of the possibilities. Each potential future discussed is an island, and whether they are compatible with each-other in some wider scenario is not the point: rather, each possible, plausible future stakes out a new piece of the terrain. All of this could happen. An amazingly dense read, The Future We Deserve will stay with you long, long after you read it. The authors regularly discuss the pieces in the book, and are still learning from each-other, and expanding their understanding.


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Author(s): Bowyer AJB

Editor(s): Gupta, V; Lupton, C; Raford, N;

Series Editor(s): Gupta,V

Publication type: Book Chapter

Publication status: Published

Book Title: The Future We Deserve

Year: 2012

Print publication date: 21/11/2012

Online publication date: 29/02/2012

Edition: 1

Series Title: The Future We Deserve

Publisher: PediaPress GmbH

URL: https://pediapress.com/books/show/3c256c75985a759de6bd4bf56841d3/

Notes: ASIN: B00B8YAOL2


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