Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years

Inspired by Shakespeare's famous "Seven Ages of Man" soliloquy, Tomorrow Now is Bruce Sterling's dazzling vision of our future, with each chapter devoted to one of the seven stages of humanity: birth, school, love, war, politics, business, and old age. In his first nonfiction book since his classic The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling describes the world our children might be living in over the next fifty years and what to expect next in culture, geopolitics, and business. Tomorrow Now is an amusing and thought-provoking romp through the future.

BRUCE STERLING is the author of nine novels, three of which were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. The Difference Engine, co-written with William Gibson, was a national bestseller. He has also published three short-story collections and one nonfiction book, The Hacker Crackdown. He edited the anthology Mirrorshades and has written for many magazines, including Newsweek, Fortune, Harper’s, Details, Whole Earth Review, and Wired, where he has been a contributing writer since its conception. In 1999, he won the Hugo Award in the short-story category. He lives in Austin, Texas.


From the Hardcover edition.