The Future Audio & Video

In 1968, Will and Ariel Durant summarized some of the periods and trends in history they had recognized from their study of 5,000 years of world history in their short work The Lessons of History.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil takes a look the exponential growth of many forms of technology and where these technologies will take us in the not to distant future.

When scholars write the history of the world 20 years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004", what will they say was the most crucial development?

What will planet Earth be like in 20 years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future....

The eminent historian and strategist reflects on how China's past illuminates its 21st-century trajectory, drawing on 40 years of intimate acquaintance with the country and its leaders.....

Drawing on a profound understanding of geopolitical patterns, George Friedman offers a compelling, eye-opening portrait of the future and the new historical cycle we are now entering.

From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions.

The visionary behind the best-selling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next 10 years-and what our lives will look like once it has.

American democracy is, in many people's minds, the model for the rest of the world....

In this fully revised and updated edition of his bestseller, "The Road Ahead", Bill Gates explains why the Internet is revolutionizing not just Microsoft but everything else, too--and at a faster pace than even he had anticipated.