The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies
By, Broderick, Damien
Publisher: Tor Books
Class No.: 303.483 BRO
Accession No.: 016078
Year: 2001
Pages: 384 p.

Of the week: 06th Oct. 2008 to 12th Oct., 2008

The Midwest is beach front property, the workforce is largely dominated by women, and genetic engineering gives rescue workers gills to better save lives according to James Canton, Ph.D., a renowned futurist and top advisor to the Fortune 1000. Dr. Canton charts the course the world will take in his new book THE EXTREME FUTURE: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5, 10 and 20 Years

In The Extreme Future, Dr. James Canton predicts that:

• The high cost of oil will force the West to invent new alternatives to oil and lead to depressed OPEC economies, leading to more terrorism against the West
• Radical life extension will create a two-class global society of those who live over 150 years and of those who cannot afford to
• The Internet will develop an awareness of itself and its own personality and rebel against human controls
• Human cloning will become the ultimate in identity theft
• A nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India is more likely then not
• Copy-cat products from Asia—from drugs to auto parts—will perform better then the original branded products they’re based on
• Radical life extension will reshape entire markets and society
• The new global Innovation Economy will deliver widespread prosperity and wealth