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Dimensions: 230 x 150 x 30 mm, weight, 450 grams

As the philosopher Seneca warned of times in which the descendants surprised that the ancestors "so plain did not know." Thus our generation exactly not happened, there is foresight - with a variety of methods. What to see on the screen of the "future radar," said Pero Micic. How to interpret the signals on the screen, the reader can decide.

is not a future goal, as many unfortunately still believe, but a process. Not all people are equipped with the necessary sensitivity to detect this permanently in the background running process and properly evaluate. This is also the high number of wrong decisions declared in areas such as economics, politics or culture.

Willam Gibson, (by me times more frequently cited) is cyberpunk author of what sociologists call a little awkward " Futures Present , brought beautifully to the point:" The future is already here, just not yet evenly distributed. " For the present the future, we are often blind. We evaluate the act of departure, the radically new, without realizing that the main changes occur not in revolution but in homeopathic doses. The future is not always what is new, but always the other.

If the future, but even in the presence of "distributed", then lies in our technological world, believing nothing more detail, as the establishment of comprehensive monitoring stations, the distribution of the future on a radar screen (such as the distribution of traffic at flight level 100) to capture. Finish is the future of radar - a term that purports to be a way though it's really just about the clever marketing of feelings between uncertainty and creative drive.

By its future radar to distinguish clearly the author of the otherwise available in abundance trend reports, forecasts or scenarios that cause in his opinion, only confusion. Just because of his understandable criticism of the market of the future interpretations and methods of soothsayers, often enough in the tradition the augurs and oracles are facing is the book worth reading. The future research, he is - certainly not disinterested (he is the CEO of Future Management Group AG) - the concept over the future management, the task of structuring of knowledge and the exposure of design options that build on this knowledge. Therefore, his book is aimed primarily also to the representatives of the economy, which already identify future issues (have to). The author is aware of this, unfortunately, not the opposition of his own argument that the future depicted as open review of the radar will eventually be reduced but only to planning security markets.

His goal is to give a reliable overview of how the future just been distributed. The radar works by Micic therefore as follows: 1 Compilation - Take 100 current books and future prospective studies and gain first of all an overview. Which statements are made there? As the authors assessed for their respective topic in the future? 2. Structure - The Future topics are grouped into clusters that structure the book: Biossphärische, technological, political, economic and social future factors. 3. The radar function is ultimately the fact that one can see through five different glasses on the future topics for each direction are a specific target. This method is similar to the way remarkably uncreative the method of the six "thinking hats " which is being advocated in many books for ideas and creativity. This again goes to the legendary Walt Disney (inventor of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck), who could in his brainstorming method afford even three different rooms, different schools of thought represented.

Micic gathered in this sense a wide variety of future factors in the aforementioned areas. Plenty of new finds are not among them, but that the author claims not so. The book provides for something which some authors of books about the future are too good. True to the motto of Odo Marquard t, a German philosopher who coined the motto "our heritage" is trying Micic 5000 years philosophy and theory of change in a "practical crash course" to teach. At least 30 pages of space it takes for this epic picture! This is structured so well that you can recommend it without hesitation. The reader is clear that change has always been in shape, direction, mechanism, and (social) assessment differed and still differ. This is also the real added value of the book. It shows that the future always depending on prevailing notions of (social, technical, etc.) adheres to change. The past, it shows the macro-historical perspective, is nothing but a collective memory.

This means nothing other than that there can be no neutral future, but only normatively framed, institutionally embedded, reviewed by Interest futures. Depending on the views and interests can come along an innovation as progress, as the decline or development. We are all involved in these assessments every day, that we "produce" incessantly future. Maybe we should give it a little more effort sometimes.

contribution to the future of mankind: first The realization that we do not have to wait for the new, because it is everyday life at all levels already. 2. The realization that the future (we all) can be made.

Pero Micic: The future of radar. The most important trends, technologies and issues for the future, 2006, 2 Edition. Gabal Verlag, Offenbach.

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existential holes instead of radio communication traps

Weight: 366 grams Dimensions: 210 x 155 mm x 20 mm

you always have to take a call, just because your phone or Cell phone rings? If you are someone who constantly nachschaut whether he has received a new message or someone who responds to a compulsive SMS. To find out what they have to do home-grown organic vegetables, the off switch on your TV and the lack of e-mails to each other, then read on ...

Although it seems as if we are all victims of the general acceleration of the "information bomb" ( Paul Virilio ) and numerous communications sites, they are still there, the very simple EXIT opportunities. Some call it simply slowing down, as the representatives of the so-called Slow Food movement , which it is important "to know what you eat". There are even slow cities that have similar objectives to Citta Slow-motion together and where it comes back to life in cities more livable (Furtwangen heard - yet - do so). followed

similar objectives Miriam Meckel, the author of the book "The Luck of the unreachable." The professor of 'Corporate Communication' (University of St. Gallen) aims to show how life can be worth living if you know how to (correctly) communicates. To say it first: Most of the book is for media-savvy people rather boring - the target audience is probably people who find it exciting when they install a software for the first time and even then it all works. The author is not exactly modest, not appeal to: a bitch. They always mentioned how important it is for yourself who all want something from her and how many times a month jetting to New York. The idea for the book had it because it simply has to communicate so much, ah! The whole book seems as if the publisher would have said: "Ok, communication inaccessibility, this is a good idea Unfortunately still missing 180 pages, so it is a book write a little about this online stuff, you know... already. "

And then she has done well. Let us just what Miriam Meckel would tell us about "love communication in the network world" (we've already tried it before, but really!). Let us not be intimidated by chapter titles like "The vibrating Me: Naked in the network without the limits of privacy" (we know what we do!). About Let gallantly to the chapter "Digital time thieves and squatters. How technology affects our lives (the title comes across as a pharmacy magazine) Recommended yet the introduction" We Simultanten: Always available, standby, and the first chapter "In communication case: data flow and ebb of thinking "

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Meckel works out in these two central chapters, which could also be called from a sociological perspective, the ambivalence of modern existence. We want to belong, to be networked, to be respected, etc. But more and more people do not want to redeem the related "duty to communicate." We are simultaneously normative and communicative fish quitters.

what is now the case of communication? The first (rather sociological) problem is that technology does not involve any social networking for a long time connection to themselves. It is so different than it once Howard Rheingold in his classic " Virtual Community . "He thought it was described this way: It works in a networked, but knows and helps in the RL, where should it be necessary today, it's like this. It has" followers "and" contacts ", but still long . no friends is

The second problem more psychological or spiritual nature: who communicates constantly, preferably all at the same time, anyone who listens to more correctly What most forget. It is the converse of the statement: no one listens us more (correct) to. I have long observed that very few people are still in a position to focus more than three sentences and to listen attentively. From the rudeness, the same a telephone call to a landline and a lead on the phone, not to mention ...

Meckel wants the digital communication media, but why not abolish the same. deal, but she is looking for tips in a "real" and "socially acceptable" way with them. In the professional world is called the communication ecology . These include conscious communication breaks, the autonomous structure their lives and give us time to be important: "We need to turn technology to be able to switch off mentally." Get away from stress, from the Rat-Race, the intrigues of everyday life. Disconnection of the many to-do's, check lists and mind maps to our Brain torture.

I want to anticipate the many tips not the Meckel developed in their book, but refer to their philosophy. "Everyone today needs from time to time be individual existential Funkloch This not only for increasing the quality of life, it is vitally important. "

The "homo ConnectUs" is not lost. He can escape from the trap data. But some are Meckel (expectable) advice and practical tips. What is missing this book is an explanation of how to develop these new habits (the communicative unavailability) for itself (for man is a creature of habit - Establish new routines is hell) and how to get as a society to new communication requirements and expectations. For it is of little use if one takes as an individual and the communication plug for it - is punished by others because you are not the prevailing norm - sooner or later. The new habit would have to be unreachable, a new right to inaccessibility face. About how this law can be produced, the author says, unfortunately, nothing.

The book is ultimately less a communication sociological study, but one of the most common life guide books that I personally "love" so much. Not because I needed or because I find the contents well. But simply because they "do XYZ, and you will be sooo happy books" a wonderful expression of our cultural helplessness are. More and more people are seeking answers to questions that could previously be answered for himself. Example: A few days ago I saw a recipe book for baby food. Baby food with all kinds of flavors. I called my mother and asked if it at the time when I was a baby, cook books were for baby food. Of course there was none. My mother just knew how to cook baby food. Or they lived in a communicative environment that had that information and transfer (probably were my grandmothers this communicative environment).

past you knew that you need now and in peace. And they knew to how it hires, to be left alone. Today it is possible to write about the same topics are a bestseller.

contribution to the future of humanity: The book increases the chances of us not all go crazy and waste in the information sink.

Miriam Meckel: The Luck of the inaccessibility. Ways out of the communication event. 2007 (3rd edition). Murmann Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-86774-002-9