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The futurist : a novel / by Othmer, James P.(CARDINAL)474051;

Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Satirical literature.; Americans; Futurologists; Forecasting; Travelers;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5

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Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / by Womack, Ytasha.(CARDINAL)481483;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.Evolution of a space cadet -- A human fairy tale named black -- Project imagination -- Mothership in the key of Mars -- The African cosmos for modern mermaids (mermen) -- Divine feminine in space -- Pen my future -- Moonwalkers in paint and pixels -- A clock for time travelers -- The surreal life -- Agent change -- Future world.

Subjects: Science fiction; African Americans; Science fiction films; Futurologists.; African diaspora;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4

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A century of tomorrows : how imagining the future shapes the present / by Adamson, Glenn,author.(CARDINAL)264604;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-317) and index.Heaven and hell -- Machine -- Garden -- Lab -- Party -- Flood."An acclaimed cultural historian takes readers on an intellectual thrill ride through the kaleidoscopic story of futurology, a surprisingly powerful force in the modern world. For millennia, predicting the future was the province of priests and prophets, the realm of astrologers and seers. Then, in the twentieth century, futurologists emerged, claiming that data and design could make planning into a rational certainty. Over time, many of these technologists and trend forecasters amassed power as public intellectuals, even as their predictions proved less than reliable. Now, amid political and ecological crises of our own making, we drown in a cacophony of potential futures-including, possibly, no future at all. A Century of Tomorrows offers an illuminating account of how the world was transformed by the science (or is it?) of futurecasting. Beneath the chaos of competing tomorrows, Adamson reveals a hidden order: six key themes that have structured visions of what's next. Helping him to tell this story are remarkable characters, including self-proclaimed futurologists such as Buckminster Fuller and Stewart Brand, as well as an eclectic array of other visionaries who have influenced our thinking about the world ahead: Octavia Butler and Ursula LeGuin, Shulamith Firestone and Sun Ra, Marcus Garvey and Timothy Leary, and more."--

Subjects: Informational works.; Forecasting; Forecasting; Futurism (Literary movement); Futurologists; Future, The.; Future, The;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5

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Origin : a novel / by Brown, Dan,1964-author.(CARDINAL)346830;

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon navigates a dangerous intersection of humanity's two most enduring questions, interweaving codes, science, religion and other disciplines before making a paradigm-shifting discovery.Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he will reveal an astonishing scientific breakthrough that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos. Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the provocative event. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch's secret. Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain's Royal Palace itself.1020LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Cryptologic fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Thrillers (Literature); Thrillers (Fiction); Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Langdon, Robert (Fictitious character); Cryptographers; Human beings; Computer scientists; Discoveries in science; Futurologists; Religion and science; Terrorism investigation; Conspiracies;

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Whole Earth : the many lives of Stewart Brand / by Markoff, John,author.(CARDINAL)176167;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-388) and index.Shoppenagon -- On the golden shore -- Acid -- American Indian -- Multimedia -- Access to tools -- CoEvolution -- Anonymity -- Learning -- Float upstream."From one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth Catalog to the marriage of environmental consciousness and hacker capitalism and the rise of a new planetary culture-the story behind so many other stories. Stewart Brand has long been famous if you knew who he was, but for many people outside the counterculture, early computing, or the environmental movement,he is perhaps best known for his famous mantra "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." Steve Jobs's endorsement of these words as his code to live by is fitting; Brand has played many roles, but one of the most important is as a model for how to live. The contradictions are striking: A blond-haired WASP with a modest family inheritance, he went to Exeter and Stanford and was an army veteran, but in California in the 1960s he was an artist and a photographer in the thick of the LSD revolution. While tripping on acidon the roof of his building, he envisioned how valuable it would be for humans to see a photograph of the planet they shared from space, an image that in the end landed on the cover of his Whole Earth Catalog, the defining publication of the counterculture. He married a Native American woman and was committed to protecting indigenous culture, which connected to a broader environmentalist mission that has been a through line of his life. At the same time, he has outraged purists because of his pragmatic embrace of useful technologies, including nuclear power, in the fight against climate change. The famous tagline promise of his catalog was "Access to Tools"; with rare exceptions he rejected politics for a focus on direct power. It was no wonder, then, that he was early to the promise of the computer revolution and helped define it for the wider world. Unlike most people, who make a mark in one field, Brand has a life that can be hard to fit onto one screen. John Markoff, also a great chronicler of tech culture, has done something extraordinary in unfolding the rich, twisting story of Brand's life against its proper landscape. As Markoff makes marvelously clear, the streams of individualism, respect for science, environmentalism, and embrace of Eastern andindigenous thought that flow through Brand's entire life form a powerful gestalt, a California state of mind that has a hegemonic power to this day. At its best, it is the wellspring for a true planetary consciousness that may be the best hope we humanscollectively have"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Brand, Stewart.; Whole Earth catalog (Menlo Park, Calif.); Appropriate technology; Counterculture; Futurologists; Journalism, Technical; Technological innovations; Technologists; Technology;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Tomorrowland [videorecording] / by Bauer, Chris,actor.; Bird, Brad,1957-film director.(CARDINAL)348241; Cassidy, Raffey,actor.; Chernov, Jeffrey.pro; Clooney, George,actor.; Hahn, Kathryn,1974-actor.; Jensen, Jeff.aus; Key, Keegan-Michael,1971-actor.; Laurie, Hugh,1959-actor.; Lindelof, Damon,1973-screenwriter.; McGraw, Tim,actor.(CARDINAL)340648; Robertson, Brittany,actor.; Walt Disney Pictures,publisher.(CARDINAL)346896;

George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy, Tim McGraw, Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key, Chris Bauer.Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank, jaded by disillusionment, and Casey, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as "Tomorrowland". What they must do there changes the world-and them-forever.MPAA rating: PG; for sequences of sci-fi action violence and peril, thematic elements, and language.Blu-ray; all regions, Dolby TrueHD 5.1.

Subjects: Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5

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Tomorrowland [videorecording] / by Bauer, Chris,actor.(CARDINAL)892082; Bird, Brad,1957-film director.(CARDINAL)348241; Cassidy, Raffey,actor.; Chernov, Jeffrey.pro.(CARDINAL)848369; Clooney, George,actor.(CARDINAL)529899; Hahn, Kathryn,1974-actor.(CARDINAL)786676; Jensen, Jeff.aus.(CARDINAL)396427; Key, Keegan-Michael,1971-actor.(CARDINAL)815462; Laurie, Hugh,1959-actor.(CARDINAL)685077; Lindelof, Damon,1973-screenwriter.(CARDINAL)552363; McGraw, Tim,actor.(CARDINAL)340648; Robertson, Brittany,actor.(CARDINAL)787361; Walt Disney Pictures,publisher.(CARDINAL)346896;

Director of photography, Claudio Miranda ; edited by Walter Murch, Craig Wood ; music by Michael Giacchino.George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy, Tim McGraw, Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key, Chris Bauer.When Cruella De Vil dognaps all of the Dalmatian puppies in London, brave animal heroes launch a daring plan to save them from Cruella's clutches.MPAA rating: PG; for sequences of sci-fi action violence and peril, thematic elements, and language.Blu-ray; all regions, widescreen 2.20:1; 7.1 DTS-HDMA Dolby digital 5.1; requires Blu-ray player.DVD; NTSC ; Region 1 ; Dolby Digital.

Subjects: Children's films.; Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2

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