twenty-first century

In the year 2023, after numerous worldwide calamities, New York psychiatrist, criminal profiler, and historian Dr. Gideon Wolfe acquires evidence that the well-known visual record of President Emily Forrester's assassination in 2018 was altered by her husband, and that the public at large is being deceived by the media every day.

In 2025, America's favorite TV game show features contestants attempting to evade death at the hands of the Hunters. Thirty days of survival takes the prize--one billion dollars.

Examines issues and advances that affected education in the twentieth century, looking ahead to how changes in teacher development, curriculum, assessment, technology, and cognitive science will shape education in the twenty-first.

Two frightened navigators, three frozen hibernauts, and a talkative copmuter named Hal ride on the spacecraft Discovery, hoping to unravel the mystery of a crystal monolith left on the moon by alien intelligence.

John Firth Baker, the world's first genetically engineered visual artist, is remembered after his murder in 2057 through reproductions of his work, journals, E-mails, newspaper clippings, and interviews.

Presents more than twenty essays and articles on topics related to the year 1000 and the second millennium, the year 2000 and the third millennium, the planet's future, the economic outlook, and the society of the future.

Jane Buckingham, founder of the consulting company The Intelligence Group, draws on interviews with dozens of people in a wide range of industries to predict how American culture, government, and society will change in the future.

In the years following the War on Terrorism, people around the world cope with terrorist attacks and governments intentionally misinforming its citizens, making the only place to receive true information a rogue media outlet; and after witnessing a nuclear bomb attack which their country denies, Scottish software engineer James Travis and his peace activist daughter, Roisin, begin to understand just how desperate the world has become.

Twenty-two essays debate issues related to the roles of technology, world health, the environment, and the global community in humanity's future, including human genetic enhancement, energy sources, pollution, genetically modified food, global warming, overpopulation, weapons of mass destruction, the gap between rich and poor nations, and several others.

Hiro Protagonist, a pizza delivery man in future America, lives an alternate life as a warrior prince in the Metaverse where he embarks on a search-and-destroy mission for the virtual-reality villain who is trying to bring about infocalypse.