We live in times of great change. Or so we are told. Headlines blast messages about clashes between tribes, civilizations, political factions, East and West. We are told that unless we abstain from eating meat, flying or enjoying other modern amenities, the planet is doomed. We live in times of trouble. Of crossroads. Of signs of decline. We live in special times.
In turn, future thinking is often reduced to people having opinions about other people’s opinions. As opposed to manifesto, in manifesto many small ideas are created to inspire one person, your-self. By sharing the vision of the future, we can avoid telling stories and instead strive to surround ourselves with as many strange, conflicting ideas that we can in order to immerse ourselves in future possibilities and possible futures. Incorporating recognizable examples, ‘Minifesto’ will illustrate how the world changes when a single individual does something new.
In this book, acclaimed Futurologist Magnus Lindkvist wants to wrestle the tools to create tomorrow from the hands of the mighty and give out them in the heads of the many. Minifesto is a remarkable, intellectual adventure story of how poison saves lives, how a Friday afternoon playtime exercise won the Nobel Prize and how list causes, failures and general idiocy can create billion-dollar business.
