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‘a whirlwind tour of technological possibility’ new scientist welcome to the future, where you’ll be able to take an elevator hundreds of miles into space, the internet will be in your contact lens, nanobots will scan your dna for signs of disease and you’ll be able to control computers with your brain – and even rearrange the physical world itself. it may sound like science fiction but, as physics guru michio kaku shows, this is the shape of things to come. based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists who are already inventing this future in their labs, physics of the future is a time-travelling tour through the revolutionary advances in medicine, computers, quantum physics and space travel that will forever change our way of life – and alter the course of civilization itself. internationally acclaimed physicist dr michio kaku holds the henry semat chair in theoretical physics at the city university of new york. he is also an international bestselling author, his books including hyperspace and parallel worlds, and a distinguished writer, having featured in time, the wall street journal, the sunday times and the new scientist to name but a few. dr kaku also hosts his own radio show, ‘science fantastic’, and recently presented the bbc’s popular series ‘time’.

In this landmark work, new yorker columnist james surowiecki explores a seemingly counter-intuitive idea that has profound implications. decisions taken by a large group, even if the individuals within the group aren’t smart, are always better than decisions made by small numbers of ‘experts’. this seemingly simply notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organised and how nation-states fare. with great erudition, surowiecki ranges across the disciplines of psychology, economics, statistics and history to show just how this principle operates in the real world. along the way surowiecki asks a number of intriguing questions about a subject few of us actually understand – economics. what are prices? how does money work? why do we have corporations? does advertising work? his answers, rendered in a delightfully clear prose, demystify daunting prospects. as surowiecki writes: ‘the hero of this book is, in a curious sense, an idea, a hero whose story ends up shedding dramatic new light on the landscapes of business, politics and society’.

Politics in the twentieth century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society? now the debate is different: to what extent should our lives be directed and controlled by powerful digital systems – and on what terms? digital technologies – from artificial intelligence to blockchain, from robotics to virtual reality – are transforming the way we live together. those who control the most powerful technologies are increasingly able to control the rest of us. as time goes on, these powerful entities – usually big tech firms and the state – will set the limits of our liberty, decreeing what may be done and what is forbidden. their algorithms will determine vital questions of social justice. in their hands, democracy will flourish or decay. a landmark work of political theory, future politics challenges readers to rethink what it means to be free or equal, what it means to have power or property, and what it means for a political system to be just or democratic. in a time of rapid and relentless changes, it is a book about how we can – and must – regain control. winner of the estoril global issues distinguished book prize.

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“shortlisted for the samuel johnson prize for non-fiction 2015 winner of the jerwood prize a constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. we are increasingly coaxed from the three-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information and global connection. our portals to this new world have been wedged open, and the silhouette of a figure is slowly taking shape. but what does it feel like to be four-dimensional? how do digital technologies influence the rhythms of our thoughts, the style and tilt of our consciousness? what new sensitivities and sensibilities are emerging with our exposure to the delights, sorrows and anxieties of a networked world? and how do we live in public, with these recoded private lives? tackling ideas of time, space, friendship, commerce, pursuit and escape, and moving from hamlet to the ghosts of social media, from seinfeld to the fall of gaddafi, from facebook politics to oedipus, the four-dimensional human is a highly original and pioneering portrait of life in a digital landscape.”