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100	1		_915847 _aSamuel, Lawrence R.
245			_aFuture. _bA Recent History
260			_aAustin _bUniversity of Texas Press _c2009
300			_a244 pp _c15 x 23 cm
504			_aInclou referències bibliogràfiques i índex
520			_aThe future is not a fixed idea but a highly variable one that reflects the values of those who are imagining it. By studying the ways that visionaries imagined the future—particularly that of America—in the past century, much can be learned about the cultural dynamics of the time. In this social history, Lawrence R. Samuel examines the future visions of intellectuals, artists, scientists, businesspeople, and others to tell a chronological story about the history of the future in the past century. He defines six separate eras of future narratives from 1920 to the present day, and argues that the milestones reached during these years—especially related to air and space travel, atomic and nuclear weapons, the women's and civil rights movements, and the advent of biological and genetic engineering—sparked the possibilities of tomorrow in the public's imagination, and helped make the twentieth century the first century to be significantly more about the future than the past. The idea of the future grew both in volume and importance as it rode the technological wave into the new millennium, and the author tracks the process by which most people, to some degree, have now become futurists as the need to anticipate tomorrow accelerates.
650		7	_2lemac _914478 _aSociologia
650		7	_2lemac _9326 _aHistòria social _yS-XX
655		0	_2popin _9298 _aSOCIOLOGÍA _fSOCIOLOGY _iSOCIOLOGIA
655		0	_2popin _91431 _aHISTORIA SOCIAL _fSOCIAL HISTORY _iHISTÒRIA SOCIAL
655		0	_2popin _950 _aESTADOS UNIDOS _fUNITED STATES _iESTATS UNITS
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