..., enabling Mary Shelley to make her political points indirectly. The Last Man, set in a dystopian future, describes the catastrophic effect of a pandemic that wipes out the human race, offering trenchant criticisms of 19th-century politics, the British government, patriarchy, injustice, and the class system...

... is going. While previous reviews have assessed leadership knowledge as being very complex, not complete, and difficult to apply, the current review presents several themes that are indisputable but not undebatable, in order to establish the knowledge boundaries of leadership and enable future needs...

... variables over a certain horizon. Econometric models are used to create projections of economic scenarios. Economic value can be understood as the present financial value of uncertain future cash flows such as it relates to the value of future indexation flows and contributions. The absolute and relative...

... with diagnoses of ADD/ADHD, and fail to equip them with twenty-first century skills. On the other hand, parents are propelled by a belief that travel, which sparks children’s curiosity, celebrates their mobility, and prepares them for the future, is a better way to learn. The chapter situates worldschooling...

...The epilogue revisits the tension between individual and collective strategies for living the good life, situating this discussion within larger debates about mobility futures and mobility justice. Drawing on concepts from recent scholarship in mobilities studies, such as the “mobile commons...

... modernity while preparing their children to thrive in an uncertain future. This analysis reveals that mobile lifestyles do not transcend social hierarchies, but introduce new mechanisms of distinction. Instead of transmitting economic capital to their children, worldschooling parents secure their children’s...

... been witnessed in ECMO care from the 1970s until now. In the future, most of the current ECMO limits most likely will be overcome. ECMO will be automatically controlled, and the patient will be able to recover at home, with remarkable changes in ECMO patient management and outcome, even at long term...

...The concept of futurity requires critical perspectives that go beyond the literary. This introduction sets the context for the cross-disciplinary conversations between the arts and humanities, social sciences, and STEM disciplines on futures-thinking that are the subject of this volume...

...This chapter intervenes in critical debates about the recording and documenting of histories of the future by critiquing, and offering an alternative approach to, current practices. It argues that many histories of the future rely on an extremely selective range of empirical sources which secure...

...Olaf Stapledon has been described as ‘the great classical example’ for science fiction. In Last and First Men (1930), he projected a future for human evolution across two billion years, three planets, and eighteen species. Stapledon denied that his book was either prophecy...

...Fig. 2 Helping many Fig. 1 Good and needs Fig. 3 Parfit’s paradox Fig. 4 Parfit’s paradox elaborated Fig. 5 Future Bliss and Future Hell How should we help people live minimally good lives in present and future generations when doing so does not require sacrificing our own ability to live...

...Politics of Play. Aggie Hirst, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197629192.003.0010 The conclusion recapitulates the argument developed in the book and sets the agenda for future research. It begins by restating the book’s status...

... and retreats in North Africa Biosphere 2 structure and history of ecological “lifeboats ” mixed results of ecosystem restoration Amazon agricultural soils ecosystem resistance to invasive species failures of ecological lifeboats future challenges to humanity [I]n the 1990s researchers began studying...

...This chapter analyses Xi Jinping’s nationalist ideology and its relationship with future trends in Chinese foreign policy. It argues that Xi’s officially sponsored nationalist campaigns are likely to continue in parallel with his strategic resolve to pursue an increasingly assertive foreign...

... Graves cemetery. The chapter discusses the ways that changes in the nature of modern and future wars have and will shape the ways in which conflict is remembered and memorialized, notably the expansion of the battlefield and the shift of conflict into cyberspace, the growth of civilian casualties...

...0 05 08 2024 We propose in this chapter that we adopt the strategy of the future anterior that we have been exploring in this book to address the crises currently faced not only by the humanities but also by humanity at large. The limit case is climate change, and we consider what special...

... the present neglect of ‘time of consciousness’ complexity theory poetry JB on In The Terrible Night Na Noite Terrível poem by Fernando Pessoa Na Noite Terrível In The Terrible Night poem by Fernando Pessoa Pessoa Fernando past present future Walter Benjamin complexity theory Fernando Pessoa I...

...This chapter offers a model that frames numerous theories about the future of warfare. It attempts to detail the general shifts in the changing character of war including the rise of indirect approaches, efforts targeting societies and their economic systems via cyber-attacks or influence...

...Text linguistics defines a metaphor as “a linguistic sign in a heterogeneous context which generates an unexpected, a counter-determining effect,” such as the so-called “historiographic future” that introduces a perspective angle on past occurrences. Other usages include the conditional...

... they view as one of the main symptoms of modern nihilism. Chapters 7 and 8 (objections from technology and from social and political theory) look towards the immediate and long-term futures of work. The second organizing principle is archaeological in a broad thematic sense. Chapter 1 sets the scene...