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Meditations for a Miserable Millennium

Dan Goodman

Following the success of his Meditations for Miserable People, comedy writer Dan Goodman helps us face the year 2000. Among his reminders: The year 2000 will have three zeros . . . four if you include yourself; By the year 2000, virtual reality will be better than my own; The year 2000 will be a wake up call, and as usual I'll forget to set my alarm . . . and much more.

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Millennium Iii, Century Xxi : A Retrospective on the Future

Peter N. Stearns

Stearns (history, Carnegie-Mellon U.) investigates what if anything can be said about either the millennium or the century that is about to end. He reveals some established traditions as recent innovations, and some modern traits as ancient survivals. He also speculates on why the imminent click to zero is attracting so little interest. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The Messiah Stones

Irving Benig

This extraordinary work explores the ultimate mysteries of both the human spirit--and the end of time. After his archaeologist father finds the fabled stones given to Moses with the Ten Commandments, John McGowan embarks, reluctantly, on what becomes a voyage of self-discovery and revelation that will change his life forever.

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Interface Culture

Steven Johnson

Learning from the Future : Competitive Foresight Scenarios

Liam Fahey (Editor), Robert M. Randall (Editor)

This innovative text offers companies and their decision makers a chance to learn from the future before it happens. This new technique of forecasting future economic, political and other possible developments within an organization, is called scenario planning. Shows how to create, develop, and explore different types of scenarios and how to link them to future decision making.

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The 500 Year Delta : What Happens After What Comes Next

Jim Taylor, Watts Wacker, Howard Means

Presents compelling, provocative insights into the future, arguing that we are approaching a time of great change that will dramatically alter the ways in which we think and our political, social, economic, and cultural organization.

2025 : Scenarios of US and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology

Joseph F. Coates, John B. Mahaffie, Andy Hines

Tapping the worlds of science and technology, this penetrating look at the years ahead paints a fascinating picture you're sure to enjoy. Looking backward from the year 2025, fifteen scenarios reflect a well-focused view of what life will be like in the United States as well as other societies (both affluent and less prosperous).

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Questioning the Millennium : A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown

Stephen Jay Gould

In the bestselling short-history format of Longitude and How the Irish Saved Civilization, this elegant volume by the author of such well-known works as The Panda's Thumb and The Flamingo's Smile explores the rational and religious roots of human fascination with the millennium. 16 illustrations.

What Will Be : How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives

Michael L. Dertouzos

In this fascinating, essential guidebook to the Third Revolution, tech oracle Michael Dertouzos--head of MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and author of the bestselling Made in America--charts a uniquely knowledgeable and richly detailed map of the changes which the new technology will wreak in every aspect of readers' lives.

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