- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New edition edition (6 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002740079
- ISBN-13: 978-0002740074
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,256,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Top international organisations including UBS and the World Bank have consulted Patrick Dixon on how to ‘future proof’ their work. Now his ground breaking financial and ethical discoveries are available to a wider audience in Futurewise.
As the millennium approaches, everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual, corporate and world scale, how society changes will affect us all profoundly. Make the wrong choice and the results could be devastating.
Patrick Dixon considers six faces of the future in Futurewise as if they are the faces of a cube. The world will be Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical (a new morality). He explains the practical results of these including everything from the hours in the working week to artificial pregnancies. From business planning on a company scale to choices about a personal pension, these changes will have an impact on everyone. Wealth, health, cultures, technology, travel, morality – all are considered in this major new study.
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This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological twentieth century society into something altogether new and different.
Are you ready for the future?
• Futurewise… planning to change tomorrow
• Futurewise… making choices that will last
• Futurewise… understanding trends in order to be in control
• Futurewise… thinking ahead at every level, personal and corporate
• Futurewise… securing the future for yourself and your family
How Futurewise are you?
How Futurewise is your company?
Look ahead and measure your plans against the six faces of the future.
fast… Urban… Tribal… Radical… Ethical
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An insightful book, full of possibilities of what may happen to life in the near future; certainly got me thinking.
Also very easy to read compared with other books on the same subject matter.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A breathtaking panorama of the future
26 Feb 2001
Format:Paperback
This incisive analysis of today's trends leaves you with a breathtaking panorama of the future, and the hope, knowledge and energy to shape the new world coming.
Through detailed analysis of the 'Now' Patrick Dixon has created an accurate and colorful mosaic of our tomorrows.
If you want to intelligently invent your own future, this is the guidebook!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Are You Ready For The Future?
19 April 2000
Format:Paperback
Dr Dixon has defined six "faces" of global change that he identifies as being: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical. When we take the first letter of each of these faces of change, we derive the word FUTURE. Fast - with technological advancement we are seeing the deployment of information at speeds that are now measured in microseconds. Trends are becoming more unpredictable because of the FAST nature at which the key trend indicators now move. Urban - As the world's population grows, more and more people are drawn to the life in the big smoke - ie. cities. With a predicted increase in population by some 3 billion extra people - the concept of the megacity, which are now prevalent especially in Asia, are becoming more and more a reality but on a wider scale.
The book goes on to explain the other faces of change. What are the choices for us now that we need to at least consider for the future? How does this affect your career? What about your family and your children? What are your plans for the future?
If you drift through life and just accept change without really knowing that change is happening, then you must read this book. Be one step in front of change, rather than be gobbled up by the rapid global change that is happening right before our eyes.
Are you ready for the future?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great inspiration directing the course of our company
26 Feb 2001
Format:Paperback
I love having a model to make things develop from. The FUTURE model is great to take hold of the paradoxes contained in every second's "todays world".
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