Gore The Future

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“The Future” is served as a guide for all those trying to foresee and forecast the social future as well as those trying to figure out how our emerging global society works. Al Gore begins his book with a look at the global economy, and more specifically how the global economy is impacting the world of work. The book does not only show how the world has evolved since the last few decades, but it also talks about the expected challenges that we have to meet when it comes to the extreme changing trends the world is heading into.

The author mentions at the beginning of his book: “ In order to reclaim control of our destiny and shape the future, we must think freshly and clearly about the crucial choices that confront us as a result of: a more

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