From the Book - Regular Print - First edition.
Part I Thinking About The Future: How Philosophers, Scientists, and Living Organisms Do It --
Chapter 1 What Is the Future? Time as a River and Time as a Map p. 15 --
Chapter 2 Practical Future Thinking: Time as a Relationship p. 39 --
Part II Managing Futures: How Bacteria, Plants, and Animals Do It --
Chapter 3 How Cells Manage the Future p. 69 --
Chapter 4 How Plants and Animals Manage the Future p. 87 --
Part III Preparing for Futures: How Humans Do It --
Chapter 5 What Is New about Human Future Thinking? p. 119 --
Chapter 6 Future Thinking in the Agrarian Era p. 143 --
Chapter 7 Modern Future Thinking p. 179 --
Part IV Imagining Futures: Human, Astronomical, and Cosmological --
Chapter 8 Near Futures: The Next One Hundred Years p. 217 --
Chapter 9 Middle Futures: The Human Lineage p. 261 --
Chapter 10 Remote Futures: The Rest of Time p. 285.