The future
The future by Al Gore is a 2013 Business & Economics book written by TED speaker Al Gore, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "Averting the climate crisis" (2006), 3.8M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 7 years after the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 6th of 6 books by Al Gore on Books Worth Reading (1992–2013), by publication year.
- Edition: Random House, 2013 · 558 pages
- Collections: Nobel Prize Winners
The paired TED talk
Averting the climate crisis (2006), the TED talk by Al Gore.
From the publisher
The consequential age we are living in will be remembered as one of the great turning points in civilization. Once we turn, though, where will we be? That is the compelling question Al Gore sets out to answer by examining the drivers of global change, connecting the dots among the social, economic, and political forces shaping our present and future. A rising global consciousness is forcing people around the world, but especially Americans, to rethink their basic assumptions about how the world works, and, even more fundamentally, how it should and can work. Borders matter less than ever. Technology is constantly reordering the way we live, think, work, learn, love, pray, and play