Following the launch of the Challenge:Future global student competition on innovation and sustainability in September 2009 (organized in cooperation with CEEMAN), hundreds of ideas and solutions submitted for the competition's first year, and thousands of online discussions among youth from all over the world on the issues affecting our future, Challenge:Future comes out with its very first The Future Book.
The Future Book is an inspiring, future-oriented, yet practical collection of provocative ideas and foresight. The book focuses on the key themes of Challenge:Future 2009/2010 competition - innovation, connectivity and sustainability. Essays by renowned futurists, business people and academia are intertwined with fresh, uninhabited observations and insights of youth from all over the world.
"Changing the world has always been a wish of the young generation. Today it is also our common need. The Future Book inspires and shows the way forward," said Dr. Danilo Turk, President of the Republic of Slovenia and Patron of the Challenge:Future 2010 Summit held in May 2010 in Bled, Slovenia in cooperation with CEEMAN and IEDC-Bled School of Management.
The authoring of The Future Book was an unique process, engaging all 14,000 members of Challenge:Future youth community. Contributions of 137 authors from 37 countries made their way into the printed book. Created with the use of crowd-sourcing and open collaboration, The Future Book is one of the first examples of applying the latest trends of technology to one of the oldest products of human civilization.
"It is amazing how The Future Book opened the space for all generations from all over the world to think and speak about our common future," said Matej Potokar, Senior Director, Microsoft Business Solutions, Microsoft Central & Eastern Europe and CEEMAN Board member. "Sharing visions and ideas among people of different ages and profiles and from diverse cultural and geographical environments is one of the most important ways to improve the quality of our life and work in the world of tomorrow."
The book design is done to reflect the personality of future generation and to promote reader interaction. Aside from the printed copy, which is done in an ecologically intelligent way, The Future Book is also eBook alive on the Challenge:Future website (www.challengefuture.org/futurebook) and will be re-written indefinitely online by contributing thoughts and comments. Like the content, the cover design of The Future Book is not conventional. It promotes one of the mottos of Challenge:Future - "Put Your Fingerprint on the Future".
The book has been already received by UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon, President of Republic of Slovenia Dr. Danilo Turk, Colin Powell, Jack Welsh, Eduard de Bono and many other world leaders, thinkers, business man and changemakers.
The printed version of the book is not sold anywhere. It is given as a token of gratitude to the past year's contributors and as an inspiration for change to those who are able and willing to make a change. The electronic version of The Future Book is available for free download.
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Author: Challenge:Future
Publisher: Challenge:Future
ISBN/ISSN: 978-961-269-285-8
Language: English
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