A CENTURY OF TOMORROWS How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present

Colorful content, excellent narration, and fresh subject matter make this audiobook a standout. Author Glenn Adamson delivers an even, well-timed narration that includes some flourishes. The audiobook surveys future forecasters, such as Buckminster Fuller, Sun Ra, Shulamith Firestone, Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Werner von Braun, the Rand Corporation, Marcus Garvey, and the Native American mystic Wovoka. According to Adamson, the future is "a generative setting for the cultural imagination . . ." For example, Black futurologists imagined an African diaspora, feminists imagined a world in which men were imprisoned in zoos, and technologists predicted Singularity, a machine world without humans. Or perhaps, as David Byrne sings, the future will simply be the "same as it ever was." R.W.S. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2025]