Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.

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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.

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Rethinking How We Think addresses the new ways of thinking and acting that legitimate hope for the future necessarily depends on. From the book's back cover: "Look closely at any of the most critical questions ahead for the species and we find an easily unsettling shared theme. Not only do usual answers fail us, usual ways of thinking fail us. Essential challenges of every sort are requiring not just fresh insights, but whole new, more mature and...

There is an old adage about the boiling frog, which claimed that if you dropped a frog into a pot of boiling water, it would immediately jump out. But if you placed it in cool water and gradually raised the temperature to a boil, the frog would slowly cook without realizing it. True or not, the adage does describe well how we have arrived at this critical juncture, and how crucial it is that we jump out of the water. The 'boiling frog' is a metaphor...

Take a peek into what the future may hold in the next 100-years, from technological advancements, to what 22nd-century living will entail. In this thought-provoking journey through the timeline, we explore the different possibilities in distant decades. Will humanity create a universal currency? Are we determined to self-destruct? Could the world be taken over by advanced robots? These are just some of the questions we explore in 2120. To draw a picture...

To live forever is one of man's oldest aspirations-and it might be become a reality. With advances in medicine and new gene research, human life span could extend into hundreds of years. But, is this life extension a good thing? "Cheating Death" examines every side of the dilemma of aging and longevity, from improvements in diet and medicine to the grander promises of science to the consequences of incredibly long life.

From the world-renowned trendspotting duo who has predicted everything from metro-sexuality to the growth of global brands comes a new, enlightening look at the future. Based on intensive research and interviews as well as the authors' real-world and business experience in locations across the globe, this book yields surprising conclusions about everything from work (the end of permanent full-time employment) to sex (disappearing gender boundaries)...

Quick and Dirty Answers to the Biggest of Questions addresses how the new kind of understanding we need today, besides helping us confront modern-day challenges, also brings a new creativity of perspective to more ultimate questions. It describes how many such ultimate questions have baffled us not because they are inherently difficult, but because they require a maturity of understanding of which we are only now becoming capable. This short book...

Lyle Greenfield's "Uniting the States of America-A Self-Care Plan for a Wounded Nation" is a work of nonfiction and opinion. Incorporating the lessons of history and the ideas and wisdom of many, it is intended as both an educational resource and a call-to-action for citizens concerned about the politically and culturally divided state of our Union. A situation that has raised alarm for the very future of our democracy. First, the book clearly identifies...

"Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Future" is the most detailed of three new future- related works by the author. It looks deeply at how the most important challenges ahead for the species will require not just better ideas, but new human capacities; in the end, an essential "growing up" as a species-a new Cultural Maturity. It is written for those interested in acquiring the newly sophisticated leadership abilities that we will more and more...

The future is big right now-for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is going to happen in the future than what is happening right now. In Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future, cultural critic and indie entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki asks how and when we started believing we could and should "create the future." What is it like to live in a society utterly focused on what is going to happen next? Through visits to colleges,...