Crucial Questions About the Future

Crucial Questions About the Future presents readers concerned about the long-range future and their place in it with a series of tough but necessary questions and, refreshingly, offers no pat answers. Instead, what is offered is a structured and reason-bound exploration of the complexities of modern life with which the reader, or the future-studies inclined academic, can provide his own answers to these eternal and critical questions. Contents: The Future of Human Civilization; What Is Most Important of All? ; Why Do We Act In Ways That Hurt Our Future? ; What Will Our Actual Future Turn Out To Be? ; How Can We Achieve a Satisfactory Future? ; Preventing the Worst Catastrophes; Intelligent Life in the Universe: What Role Will It Play In Our Future? ; >From Which Aspects of Reality Can We Gain Meaning and Purpose? ; How Can Each Person Contribute?