Tag: Futures

Free Download Nikolas Badminton, Quentin Cooper (Narrator), "Facing Our Futures: How Foresight, Futures Design and Strategy Creates Prosperity and Growth"
English | ASIN: B0BSYGYS2F | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:05:00 | 201 MB
A fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future.
Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events.

Free Download Robert Braun, "Post-Automobility Futures: Technology, Power, and Imaginaries"
English | ISBN: 153815885X | 2022 | 226 pages | EPUB, PDF | 504 KB + 4 MB
This book presents an in-depth phenomenological and deconstructive analysis of the automobility imaginary, which is none other than the mundane automobility reality within which we dwell in everyday life. A successful transition to a post-automobility future will require new ways of thinking about and conceptualizing automobility, one of the most significant and powerful imaginaries of contemporary neo-liberalism. This book offers such a view by reconceptualizing automobility in its entirety as both an imaginary and a dreamscape.

Free Download Cubanthropy: Two Futures That Happened While You Were Busy Thinking by Iván de La Nuez
English | November 28th, 2023 | ISBN: 1644213249 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 2.14 MB
Cuban art critic and curator Iván de la Nuez explores the effects of the policies that have tried to constrain or liberate Cuba in recent decades in these sparkling essays of cultural criticism.

Free Download Kelly W. Guyotte, "Academic Mothering: Fabulating Futures for Higher Education"
English | ISBN: 9004547452 | 2023 | 202 pages | PDF | 43 MB
This book is inspired by academic mothering before and through the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring diverse enactments of mothering, the authors critique academia’s systemic failures, in the pandemic and beyond, fabulating futures in which mothering is valued and supported.

Free Download Retail Futures: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the Digital Transformation
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1838676643 | 240 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 13 MB
Retail Futures presents a comprehensive collection of new theory, original empirical evidence, and applied case studies synthesizing the emerging contributions in innovation and technology management for the retailing sector. Eleonora Pantano presents readers with an accessible and wide ranging collection of chapters aimed at clearly identifying the challenges retailers have to face in response to innovative new practices, while suggesting how the sector can respond to the technological developments.

Free Download Muhammad Kavesh, "Nurturing Alternative Futures"
English | ISBN: 1032563265 | 2023 | 214 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 9 MB
Developing upon emerging environmental humanities and multispecies anthropological theories, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we might rethink more-than-human relationality and why it is important to "nurture alternative futures." The diverse chapters examine the life trajectories of people, animals, plants, and microbes, their lived experiences and constituted relationality, offering new ways to reinterpret and reimagine a multi-species future in the current era of planetary crisis. The ethnographic case studies from around the world feature a combination of biological and cultural diversity with analyses that prioritize local and Indigenous modes of thinking. While engaging with Mongolian herders, Indigenous Yucatec Mayan, Congolese farmers, rural Pakistani donkey keepers, Australian heritage breed farmers, Croatian cheesemakers, Japanese oyster aquafarmers, Texan corn growers, Californian cannabis producers, or Hindu devotees to the Ganges River, the chapters offer a grounded anthropological understanding of imagining a future in relationality with other beings. The stories, lived experiences, and mutual worlding that this volume presents offer a portrayal of alternative forms of multispecies coexistence, rather than an anthropocentric future.

Free Download Sustainable Urban Mobility Futures by Tjark Gall , Flore Vallet , Laura Mariana Reyes Madrigal , Sebastian Hörl , Adam Abdin , Tarek Chouaki , Jakob Puchinger
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 207 Pages | ISBN : 3031457943 | 8.5 MB
​This book provides a unique perspective on urban mobility focusing on past challenges and future trends. The book enables discussions of pathways towards sustainable and people-centred urban mobility building on existing concepts and introducing novel methods and consideration of future research. In particular, the book provides an overview of trends, design methods, and projects combining foresight and agent-based modelling to better integrate active mobility in Mobility-as-a-Service, assess impacts of automated vehicles in Paris, and compare multiple solutions in Cairo. The book provides a range of multidisciplinary concepts and methods that will be invaluable to both researchers in the field and students taking relevant courses.

Free Download Max Saunders, "Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31"
English | ISBN: 0198829450 | 2019 | 448 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trubner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to 1931, in which writers chose a topic, described its present, and predicted its future. Contributors included J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell, Vernon Lee, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, Sylvia Pankhurst, Hugh MacDiarmid, James Jeans, J. D. Bernal, Winifred Holtby, Andre Maurois, and many others. The study combines a comprehensive account of its interest, history, and range with a discussion of its key concerns, tropes, and influence.

Free Download Modernity and its Futures Past: Recovering Unalienated Life
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031321065 | 697 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
The work reimagines emancipatory possibilities in the face of reified capitalist modernity. The enlightenment resulted in a ‘disenchanted’ world, stripped of ‘anthropomorphised’ meaning and purpose. This world, in its capitalistic figuration, alienates us from others, and from nature. To rearticulate emancipatory possibilities requires a non-alienated relation to society and nature. Yet, modernist disenchantment cannot be undone by returning to pre-modern ‘enchantment’. Rather, such rearticulation calls for the recovery of ‘unalienated life’ from within non-reified modernity, by renewing its universalist dimension.

Free Download Intermediate Futures and Options: An Active Learning Approach (1000 Pages)
by Cheng Few Lee, John Lee & Alice Lee
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811280266 | 1001 pages | True PDF | 24.4 MB