The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change (Hardcover) by Albert Gore

from DLMorrese

I can't say Mr. Gore is an excellent writer. His prose leaves something to be desired, but the information, ideas, and analysis he presents in this book are important and well worth consideration, although it is pretty depressing. The cultural, political, and technology challenges seem daunting, ...

from HadriantheBlind

This is the broadest of future predictions. Instead of six drivers of global change, Mr. Gore has included some dozens of new rapidly changing factors, neatly categorized in spidery charts. They file under the broad topics of economic globalization, the interconnectivity of modern communications ...

from vsnunez

I have a friend (Jude) who ruefully wishes for a meteor strike with each successive item of really bad news. As it happens, we don't need any stinking "meteor" as we are the architects of our own downfall. Pretty disheartening. Big Al, Mr. Gore, that is, explains why all of this is happening, wit...

from Razinha

He was going along quite well until he crashed into the mistake of calling Malcolm ("anecdotes trump real data") Gladwell an "analyst". Strike two was mentioning William Gibson. But the real problem I had was the chapter notes...more of the distressing trend of putting the sources at the end with...

from MHanover10

Al Gore reads this book and I can understand why it's 15 CDs, he reads the book slow. There are a few boring parts that feel like a textbook is being read to the listener, but there were also parts I was very interested in. Several parts I didn't know and it was kind of scary to learn some of the...