{"product_id":"future-a-recent-history-paperback","title":"Future: A Recent History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLawrence R. Samuel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe future is not a fixed idea but a highly variable one that reflects the values of those who are imagining it. By studying the ways that visionaries imagined the future-particularly that of America-in the past century, much can be learned about the cultural dynamics of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this social history, Lawrence R. Samuel examines the future visions of intellectuals, artists, scientists, businesspeople, and others to tell a chronological story about the history of the future in the past century. He defines six separate eras of future narratives from 1920 to the present day, and argues that the milestones reached during these years-especially related to air and space travel, atomic and nuclear weapons, the women's and civil rights movements, and the advent of biological and genetic engineering-sparked the possibilities of tomorrow in the public's imagination, and helped make the twentieth century the first century to be significantly more about the future than the past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe idea of the future grew both in volume and importance as it rode the technological wave into the new millennium, and the author tracks the process by which most people, to some degree, have now become futurists as the need to anticipate tomorrow accelerates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lawrence R. Samuel is the founder of Culture Planning LLC, a consultancy for Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePledging Allegiance: American Identity and the Bond Drive of World War II\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBrought to You By: Postwar Television Advertising and the American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Miami Beach and New York City. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 254\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754133782816,"sku":"9780292723443","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c770cacd09e067eef8aa8b2d54a0b6c6.webp?v=1780034114","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/future-a-recent-history-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}