- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (5 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002740060
- ISBN-13: 978-0002740067
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,088,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A must read for anyone keen to understand what the future may hold for them" Lynda Gratton, Associate Professor, London Business School "Global change guru" Wall Street Journal "The best book on future trends I have ever read" Has-Dieter Vontobel, Chairman Bank Vontobel "Of all the guides to what is ahead, none is so sensitive, comprehensive and realistic as this book" Professor Prabhu Guptara, Director OrganisationalTransformation and Development, UBS
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`...very readable...covers a staggeringly wide subject range.'
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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great coverage,
This review is from: Futurewise: The Six Faces of Global Change (Paperback)
I read broadsheet newspapers all the time and often the broader significance of things gets lost on me. I found this book a great help in sensing what to expect from the world. Patrick Dixon has a brilliant understanding of what is going on and what is going to happen and he spells it out in very clear language. Reading this book brought a refreshing perspective to it all and I was gripped from start to finish. He breaks down how the future will be using the anacronism: Fast / Urban / Tribal / Universal / Radical / Ethical. Foreign aid as imperialism, another Chernobyl by 2030, clean fuels, transcontinental smog, global trade unions, money markets dominating nations, internet TV, information apartheid, a 'new big idea', unrbanised China - already lots of it is happening. Reading this book made me feel excited about (and better prepared for) the challenges that will come - I also felt assured that in spite of the turbulance that this stuff will bring, life will continue - it was a great antidote to the histrionic dramatics that newsprint media enjoys. There isn't any mention of sport, and he reckons that people will go for Global Hypercolor style glow-when-you-sweat clothing which I can't see being repeated in a very long while, but for the most part, the book talked a lot of sense. See the big picture, see it coming and enjoy the ride!
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A breathtaking panorama of the future,
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This review is from: Futurewise: The six faces of global change (Hardcover)
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! Dixon presents the best analysis of current rends directly shaping our future as individuals and as a global community. Read it before Tomorrow comes!
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Addresses challenge of the future with insight and vision,
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This review is from: Futurewise: The six faces of global change (Hardcover)
Most impressed. Should appeal to a wide spectrum of decision-makers, regulators and scholars. A momentous achievement.
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