The book of the future

The Book of the Future is a non-fiction book published in 2004 by the writer Andreas Eschbach . The book has been nominated for the German Youth Literature Award 2005, category non-fiction. An epilogue was added to the book in 2007 as a paperback with the changed title The Book of the Future . According to the author, the new title is an oversight.

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The book addresses foreseeable or conceivable problems of the future and presents possible solutions for discussion. Eschbach refers to various known prognoses for the future in order to derive the respective underlying questions and to give possible answers from his point of view. The book therefore offers brief outlooks on possible future scenarios. Overpopulation , climate change , the end of the oil age, the possible use of fusion reactors , the future energy supply, the possibilities of nanotechnology , the human journey into space - these are the questions that are dealt with in this book. Eschbach summarizes the results of futurology , he explains how to come to results as a futurologist. The author shows how errors can also arise, and why this is inevitable and how to deal with it. Given the diversity of the topics dealt with, it is obvious that the individual topics are not dealt with in scientific depth. Eschbach is primarily a science fiction author and so he writes this book in his own way, asking questions and finding his answers within this non-fiction book. He explains his reasons for these answers openly to the reader and encourages them to think along with them or to contradict them.

It is a view of our future from the point of view of a science fiction author who is familiar with technology and visions of the future, but who is also critical of them. The book is not a pure non-fiction book in the sense of a reference work, but an address by the author to the reader. One “consequence” of this book is his novel Ausgebrannt (2007), in which he - again in a fictional setting - demonstrates what the world could look like after the end of the oil age. The end is not reached when the oil is running low, the end is reached when the cheap oil is running low (see also Peak Oil ). But that's just one of the topics in this book.

literature

• Andreas Eschbach: The book of the future , 223 pages, rowohlt Berlin, February 2004, ISBN 3-871-34476-1

Web links

• A very detailed review in Fantastic News
• A book review at readme.de
• A short description at Specially.de
• A blog article about the book at Bookola.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage of the author. Retrieved February 12, 2017 .