Where and who do we want to be? How might we get there? What might happen if we stay on our current course?
Comedian, writer and activist Grace Campbell was born into a political environment that suggested only aggressive, dominant men like her father Alistair Campbell were allowed power. Seeing this, she decided that if she wanted to be powerful she had to be like him, a decision that baffled the boys she grew up with.
In The Future of Men, Grace draws on research, interviews and her own experience to examine how these dynamics and presumptions have shifted in her lifetime, and will continue to change in coming decades. Men have been writing about the future of women since words came into existence now Grace returns the favour with this sharp, funny and personal essay.
This brief but mighty book is one of five that comprise the first set of FUTURES essays. Each standalone book presents the author’s original vision of a singular aspect of the future which inspires in them hope or reticence, optimism or fear. Read individually, these essays will inform, entertain and challenge. Together, they form a picture of what might lie ahead, and ask the reader to imagine how we might make the transition from here to there, from now to then. — Book promo @ goodreads.com
This book was published by Unbound, its successor entity, Boundless Publishing Group, also failed and reportedly filed for bankruptcy administration in August 2025. Therefore, there are a total of 6 books in the Future series, this is the third one that I have read. They are all very short essays that were printed in paperback. Interesting but probably not worth the hassle involved in finding them.
Generation Z is the first American cohort to be simultaneously unfit for military service, increasingly unemployable in the private sector, and afflicted by chronic physical and mental health conditions at rates that previous generations typically did not experience until middle age or later.….America has finally raised a generation incapable of military service and one that can be replaced by AI in the workplace. Surveys have found that 57% of Gen Zers would like to become social media influencers, and about half of the degree choices Gen Z students pursue in college do not lead to professional careers. So, on the bright side, many of them may never realize that they are unemployable and non-deployable because they simply do not want to join the military or work for a living.— Gen Z
The wind was blowing the right way and we are smoke free this morning. Have a cloud cover but they do not look like they are carrying any rain. The weather guessers are forecasting a chance of thunderstorms so I’m undecided about doing a walk.