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?

Watch this entertaining documentary from 1972 which is hosted and narrated by Orson Welles. Adapted from Alvin Toffler's book of the same name, the film defines "future shock" as "too much change in too short a period of time".

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.

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.....

If human beings successfully create self-aware machines, will the positive social benefits outweigh the potential dangers we see in many blockbuster Hollywood movies?

From the author of Future Shock comes a striking way out of today's despair...a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials.

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.

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.