Navigating the Future

CONTENTS

Foreword
  1. QUEST FOR PERSPECTIVE
    Ending or Beginning?
    Is the Present Unprecedented?
    The Future of Futurology

  2. SCIENCE AND THE MIND OF MAN
    The Geologist's View
    The Persistent Past
    The Limits of Science
    Science and Morality

  3. RUNAWAY WORLD
    The Arithmetic of Famine
    Energy, Economics, and the Environment
    Burning Fuses
    The "Things to Come" Scenario

  4. A FUTURE ELSEWHERE?
    Environmental Realities
    Economic and Social Requirements
    Why Planetary Exploration?

  5. DIMENSIONS OF THE FUTURE
    Toward an Artificial World
    Artificial People?
    Homogenization and Authoritarianism
    Diversity, Democracy, and Disorder

  6. THE CRUNCH
    The Imperial Possibility
    The Superstate Scenario
    A World Confederation?
    False Hopes and Hard Choices

  7. AFTERWARD
    A Brave New World?
    Homogeneity?
    An International Magna Carta?
    Extraterrestrial Cultural Influences

  8. VIEWPOINT
    After Afterward
    The Future-What's in It for the Present?
    The Future-What Can Americans Do About It?

References, Notes and Elaborations
Acknowledgments