A Brief History of the Future

In this small book Attali is able to describe wat happened to our pllanet in te past few milleniums and he try to imagine what will happen in the next 50 years base on the past and the most recent history.

i a book that changed my prospective to look at time. if you step away from the recent facts and focus on a larger periode of time and on macro events you might see the events under a new light

From Amazon reviews:

Attali predicts that urban growth will be phenomenal everywhere. In 2008, half of the world's population lived in cities; twenty-six of which boasted populations of ten million. By 2025 (according to Attali), the planet will accommodate thirty cities with more than ten million inhabitants, and four agglomerations with more than twenty million. Ouch! This, Attali suggests, will require these areas to ripple or quadruple urban infrastructures within thirty years. This will create even more of an emissions into our stratosphere than we are currently experiencing.

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