Prologue xi Introduction xiii Part 1 : MINDSET 1. While many things change, most things remain constant3 2. The future is embadded in the present 11 3. Focus on the score of the game 21 4. Understanding how powerful it is not to have to be right 33 5. See the future as a picture puzzle 41 6. Don't get so far ahead of the parade that people don't know you're in it 47 7. Resistance to change falls if benefits are real 57 8. Things that we expact to happen always happen more slowly 63 9. You don't get results by solving problems but by exploting opportunities 77 10. Don't add unless you subtract 93 11. Don't forget ecology of technology 99 Part II : PICTURES OF THE FUTURE 1. CULTURE : A Visual Culture Is Taking Over the World 113 2. ECONOMICS : From Nation-States to Economics Domains157 3. CHINA : The Periphery Is the Center 183 4. EUROPE : Mutually Assured Decline 213 5. OUR EVOLUTIONARY ERA : Reservior of Innovation 233 Endnotes 251 Acknowledgments 263 Index 267