New Book Tracks Effects of Technology on Society for 100 Years
(PRWEB) May 30, 2007 -- Written by Michael Bell, published author, past member of the EU's Economic and Social Committee, ex-public company chairman and educationalist, "The Futures of the Human Race" sets out to explore how humans and the society they have created may evolve during the next 100 years. There are many futurist writers, but little has been written on how such technological novelties as sentient robots will interact with our complex, deeply rooted psyches and the societal forms we inhabit.
In the last few hundred years, technology, and specifically the invention of printing, allowed the emerging nation state to assert its hegemony over almost all aspects of human life, subverting many of the social mechanisms that previously gave moral coherence to our existence.
The book, however, delivers an optimistic message: that modern computer technology, especially in the form of the Internet, and globalization - these two in fact can hardly be separated - will reclaim major expanses of human endeavour for the direct involvement of people, largely bypassing the nation state.
The book begins with an Introduction devoted to a description of how our modern society evolved. A phalanx of (referenced) eminent writers across a wide range of disciplines, including Anthropology, Sociology, Economics and Psychology, agree that we would be nothing without groups.
Book One, 'Globalization', sketches the detail of this process, already surprisingly far advanced, under the five headings of Economics, Culture, Taxation, the Law and Politics. The final chapter of Book One is devoted to the Internet.
Book Two tracks the future of major human institutions such as the nation state and language as globalization and technology begin to have their effect during the first 50 years of the 21st century. Perfect, real-time translation, electricity-generating forests, robot pets, an Olympics for bionic people, access to the human subconscious, the end of compulsory work, electronic human clones, collective cognitive meeting spaces, cinemas without screens, personal immortality, the beginnings of space colonization - all these and many, many more innovations are likely to exist by 2057 or will be on the verge of realization.
Book Three is a futuristic imaginary journey through the whole of the 21st century and beyond, building on the trends and advances mapped out in Book Two to create a vision of a very different, but still human world at the beginning of the 22nd century.
The Table of Contents is available on-line at http://www.groupsrus.com/future/future_chapters.htm (click on the link). Until 1st June only, the Table of Contents contains links onwards to all parts of the book, including an index.
"The Futures of the Human Race" is available June 2nd as a hardback from Future Global Technology Publishing, Creative Media Centre, 17 Robertson Street, Hastings TN34 1HL, United Kingdom. 368pp, hardback US$24.99, download US$19.99. Copies or downloads can be ordered and paid for through www.TheFuturesOfTheHumanRace.com
Contact:
Isabella Wright
Future Global Technology Publishing Group
phone: +(00)44-1424-205-425
www.fgtpublishing.com
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