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History of the Future
The Shape of the World to Come Is Visible Today
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2011
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History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows that life in the modern world will be almost completely different from all previous human experience. The present time is best understood as a period of transition during which one country after another is following along parallel paths from traditional to modern. The process of becoming modern is so powerful that it will have similar effects on all countries. Therefore one can predict the future of countries still undergoing this change by looking at the history of countries which have already completed their transition.
Singer asserts that a "war system" has long existed in which the central concern of nations has been to protect their security by military forces and alliances. He makes the dramatic claim that, because of the inherent nature of modern countries, there will be no war system in any region populated solely by modern countries-as illustrated by the current situation in Western Europe-even though human character will not have improved. However, despite the fact that poverty, tyranny, and war will be largely eliminated, the modern world may be worse for people than the traditional world because most of the things that shaped human character will be obsolete.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6486-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6488-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
178
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CONTENTS No access
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES No access
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
INTRODUCTION No access
Chapter 1: SHAPING HISTORY BY DEFINING “MODERN” No access
Chapter 2: WHERE DOES WEALTH COME FROM AND WHY IS IT SPREADING? No access
Chapter 3: FREEDOM No access
Chapter 4: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE WAR SYSTEM No access
Chapter 5: THE JIHADI CHALLENGE AND ISLAM IN THE FUTURE No access
Chapter 6: DEMOGRAPHY No access
Chapter 7: THE FUTURE OF WORK No access
EPILOGUE No access Pages 153 - 166
NOTE ON TH ERELATIONSHIP OF THE IDEAS OF HERMAN KAHN TO THIS BOOK No access Pages 167 - 170
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL COMMENTS No access Pages 171 - 174
