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    Approaching the Future: 64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then

    By Ben Hammersley

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    From a Wired technology journalist: an “astute” and “easy-to-read” primer on the vast technological and cultural changes shaping tomorrow’s world (Financial Times).
     
    In Approaching the Future, Editor-at-Large for Wired magazine and guru of the digital age Ben Hammersley offers the essential guide to life in the ever-changing 21st century. Explaining the latest ideas in technology and their rippling effects on culture, business and politics, this book will demystify the internet, decode cyberspace, and guide you through the revolution we are all living through. This is for everyone who wants to truly understand the modern world, to no longer be caught off guard by an ever-changing society, and to prosper in the coming decades.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 1, 2013
    ISBN9781593765576
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    Approaching the Future: 64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then
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    Ben Hammersley

    Ben Hammersley is a journalist, technologist, and broadcaster. As a foreign reporter, he has worked in Iran, Afghanistan, Burma, and Beirut. As a technologist he has written books for O'Reilly and others, built sites for the Guardian and the BBC, and consulted for the UK government. He is principal of Dangerous Precedent Ltd, and Associate Editor of the UK edition of Wired.

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