The Future

by Nick Montfort

Book Overview

How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers.

The future is like an unwritten book. It is not something we see in a crystal ball, or can only hope to predict, like the weather. In this volume of the MIT Press's Essential Knowledge series, Nick Montfort argues that the future is something to be made, not predicted. Montfort offers what he considers essential knowledge about the future,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262534819
• ISBN13: 9780262534819
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher