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Tomorrow Now : Envisioning the Next Fifty Years by Bruce Sterling is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn t just talking about machines and biochemistry: what he really cares about are the interstices of technology with culture and human history. -Kurt Andersen, author of Turn of the Century Visionary author Bruce Sterling views the future like no other writer. In his first nonfiction book since his classic The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling describes the world our children might be living in over the next fifty years and what to expect next in culture, geopolitics, and business. Time calls Bruce Sterling one of America s best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre. Tomorrow Now is, as Sterling wryly describes it, an ambitious, sprawling effort in thundering futurist punditry, in the pulsing vein of the futurists I ve read and admired over the years: H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Alvin Toffler; Lewis Mumford, R
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bruce Sterling
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812969764
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Sociology, Science Fiction
- Rating
- 3.74 / 5 (253 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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