Codebreaking our future: Deciphering the future's hidden order - Softcover

Is scientific foresight possible? Are we able to divine future events with some degree of accuracy? Exactly how knowable is the future? These are questions that futurists have argued over for some considerable time. Michael Lee provides answers to these questions in his important new book `Codebreaking Our Future'.' -- Stephen Aguilar-Millan - Director of Research, European Futures Observatory

Some of the greatest scientists, philosophers, and historians of all time have advocated the concept of causality, or cause and effect, the idea that we live in a universe in which every effect has a root cause and nothing happens purely by chance. Michael Lee believes that these causal factors - the drivers of change - present challenges for society, and that by studying the possible outcomes of these challenges we can understand, foresee and model the world of tomorrow. In Codebreaking our future he examines the structural foundations of modern society and provides an overview of the four major challenges that will dominate causal change in this century. Drawing on centuries of classic academic research as well as examples from contemporary scientists, demographers and trend-watchers, Codebreaking our future establishes the methods for predicting the future by studying the causal drivers of all change.