A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century by Jacques Attali, translated by Jeremy Leggatt
English | March 11, 2009 | ISBN: 1559708794, 1611450136 | EPUB | 312 pages | 2.2 MB

Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with dangers. In this powerful and sometimes terrifying work, Attali analyzes the past and pinpoints nine distinct periods of human history, each with its world center of power and prestige, and predicts what the tenth will bring by the end of this century. Attali foresees the disappearance of individual countries and the dominance of a world government, with democracy prevailing.

However, the ultimate, burning question is: Will we leave our children and grandchildren a world that is not only viable but better, or in this nuclear world bequeath to them a planet that will be a living hell? Either way, he warns, the time to act is now.