What's Next : Predictions from 50 of America's Most Compelling People Paperback / softback
by Jane Buckingham
Paperback / softback
Description
In her role as founder and owner of Youth Intelligence, a trendspotting company at the forefront of predictions about the ever-elusive youth market, Jane Buckingham spends her days looking for the telling details in today's culture that give clues about what our future might be. And, as a savvy businesswoman whose company is a subsidiary of Creative Artists Agency, she has access to a world of fascinating, compelling leaders in a variety of industries.In this book, she follows her thread of interest wherever it leads her - and the result is a collection of 50 wide-ranging essays, all asking those people at the top of their field what their predictions are for the future of their industry or area of interest.
Examples include: SpaceX founder Elon Musk on how the future of space travel is in privatization and NASA is dead; Author Reza Aslan on how American Islam may become a model for the world; and, MIT professor Steve Ward on how 'computers are no damned good' and how this will change.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Publication Date:27/01/2009
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- ISBN:9780061672910
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Publication Date:27/01/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780061672910