Random House
February 2013
On Sale: January 29, 2013
592 pages ISBN: 0812992946 EAN: 9780812992946 Kindle: B009MYD9EE Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times
bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for
everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical
drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent
in history. With the same passion he brought to the
challenge of climate change, and with his decades of
experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore
surveys our planet’s beclouded horizon and offers a sober,
learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary
tradition of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and John
Naisbitt’s Megatrends. In The Future, Gore identifies the
emerging forces that are reshaping our world:
• Ever-increasing economic globalization has led to the
emergence of what he labels “Earth Inc.”—an integrated
holistic entity with a new and different relationship to
capital, labor, consumer markets, and national governments
than in the past.
• The worldwide digital communications, Internet, and
computer revolutions have led to the emergence of “the
Global Mind,” which links the thoughts and feelings of
billions of people and connects intelligent machines,
robots, ubiquitous sensors, and databases.
• The balance of global political, economic, and military
power is shifting more profoundly than at any time in the
last five hundred years—from a U.S.-centered system to one
with multiple emerging centers of power, from nation-states
to private actors, and from political systems to markets.
• A deeply flawed economic compass is leading us to
unsustainable growth in consumption, pollution flows, and
depletion of the planet’s strategic resources of topsoil,
freshwater, and living species.
• Genomic, biotechnology, neuroscience, and life sciences
revolutions are radically transforming the fields of
medicine, agriculture, and molecular science—and are putting
control of evolution in human hands.
• There has been a radical disruption of the relationship
between human beings and the earth’s ecosystems, along with
the beginning of a revolutionary transformation of energy
systems, agriculture, transportation, and construction
worldwide.
From his earliest days in public life, Al Gore has been
warning us of the promise and peril of emergent truths—no
matter how “inconvenient” they may seem to be. As absorbing
as it is visionary, The Future is a map of the world to
come, from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven
all too right.
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