What Future: The Year's Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent Our Future

Herausgeber: Bosch, Torie; Scranton, Roy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A yearly anthology collecting the most compelling, most deeply thought essays and articles about the future of life on our planet"--Back cover.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Unnamed Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781944700454
• ISBN-10: 1944700455
• Artikelnr.: 47881725

Autorenporträt

Torie Bosch is the editor of Future Tense, a project of Slate, New America, and Arizona State that looks at the implications of new technologies. Roy Scranton is the author of the novel War Porn (Soho Press, 2016) and the philosophical essay Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights, 2015). He is also one of the editors of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War (Da Capo, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

WORKING TOC
What a Science Fiction Writer Knows about Predicting the Future (Kim
Stanley Robinson -Scientific American)
The Great A.I. Awakening (Gideon Lewis-Kraus - New York Times Magazine)
The Disturbing Science Behind Subconscious Gender Bias (Shoshana Kordova -
The Establishment)
Hauntings in the Anthropocene (Jeff VanderMeer - Environmental Critique)
The Fight for Non-Human Rights (George Johnson - Pacific Standard)
Virtual Reality Reminds Users What It's Like to Be Themselves (Michael
Clune - Atlantic)
Preventing Tomorrow's Climate Wars (Andrew Holland - Scientific American)
Africa & Energy (Erica Gies - Nature)
Our Automated Future (Elizabeth Kolbert - New Yorker)
The End of Code (Jason Tanz - Wired)