Brief History of the Future How Visionary Thinkers Changed the World and Tomorrow's Trends are 'Made' and Marketed

Whether for economic, personal, or political reasons, people have always wanted to know what the future will bring, and there have always been those who think they can tell us. A Brief History of the Future chronicles the most influential futurists over the years: Delphi's virgin visionaries, pop futurists, science fiction writers, trend gurus, and evolutionary experts. This fascinating story ranges from Da Vinci's flying machines to Mendeleyev's periodic table, Marx's political futurism and von Neumann's game theory that nearly led to World War III to Buckminster Fuller and Corbusier's visions of social change through architecture.Strathern, Oona is the author of 'Brief History of the Future How Visionary Thinkers Changed the World and Tomorrow's Trends are 'Made' and Marketed', published 2007 under ISBN 9780786719044 and ISBN 0786719044.