★This book discusses the close relationship between science and technology and human beings and resources, looking forward to the future prospects on the basis of tracing history and analyzing the current situation!
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Climate change. Financial instability. Migrations. Inequalities. Digital acceleration and political slowness. Today’s major transformations burst into every day’s debates with their unpredictability and their fascination. Why is it so important to talk about the future? What can we do in the face of the challenges that it holds in store for us? Looking at these questions, What it will be like does not offer predictions but suggests a method for looking ahead in awareness, with the only certainty that we can cultivate on the matter: the future is the consequence of our actions. What will it be like is the original synthesis of three views: an investigation into the trends of technological evolution, research into creativity and overcoming the limits of the possible, and criticism of the media narrations. The three approaches converge on two questions: what do we know about the evolution of technology? Do we have the possibility of influencing its direction? The only way to foresee the future is to invent it, and acting in the present is the only machine we have to travel forward in time.

Luca De Biase, a journalist and writer, edits “Nòva”, the section on innovation in the newspaper “Il Sole 24 Ore”.

Telmo Pievani, a philosopher and historian of biology, evolutionist, teaches the philosophy of biological sciences in the Department of Biology of the University of Padua.