The Next Twenty Years of Your Life: A Personal Guide Into Your Life [Hardcover]

Richard Worzel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1998

According to THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS OF YOUR LIFE, our future is moving into a society of more diversity and more extremes, but we can influence our own lives. The book shows how we each can apply thought, action, commitment, and compassion to prevent the erosion of the social values we cherish.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Stoddart (March 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0773730133
• ISBN-13: 978-0773730137
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,511,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Future, January 31, 2000

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This review is from: The Next Twenty Years of Your Life: A Personal Guide Into Your Life (Hardcover)

The question is asked "would you rather live 100 years in the past, or 100 years in the furture," one might be surprised at the answer. The book will make the reader aware of the changes we all will encounter in the next 20 years. In hopes that by bringing changes to light it will make the reader think about them and prepare themselves. The author has written two other books on the future, but this book is " more personal and more speculative." The author takes the reader from the analog era into the ditigital era and gives the advantages that this brings to the new world of communications. The author presents the facts that lead to the big changes effecting the future employment market and the competition for those jobs that demand higher skills. Skills much higher than the workers have ever been trained for. Money management will also be a very crucial issue in the future because the manner in which one manages their money will effect their retirement. He discusses the facts that people go through different financial cycles as one passes through the stages in life and gives an example that is very realistic. Health care and governmental involvement is also discussed. The author developed an econometric model, based on Canadian demographics, which indicated that by the year 2017 the health care program in Canada will be costing about 45% of the governments budget. The effects of these high costs will force the government to place more restrictions on the health care professionals as to where they can practise. The author predicts changes to our society through each of the chapters and then ties them all together in the concluding chapters. I recommend this book to anyone who professes to be a futurist. The world that the author describes for the future is "substantially different from the world around you today."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent companion to his previous 'Facing the Future', July 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Next Twenty Years of Your Life: A Personal Guide Into Your Life (Hardcover)

This book avoids all the technical jargon and Worzel doesn't get too caught up in his own predictions, often stating that his 'predictions' are only possilbe outcomes due to the number of variables. But to anyone in not involved in the Technology sector, his short stories clearly show how much technology can affect us and how much it already is (without many of us being aware). If you enjoyed this book as much as I did, you will also be interested in an earlier work 'Facing the Future'.

4.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Read for Canadian Planners, January 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Next Twenty Years of Your Life: A Personal Guide Into Your Life (Hardcover)

Worzel offers a unique set of projections, wishes and suggestions as to what will, might or should happen ... along with a strong Canadian viewpoint. You may or may not agree with him on each point but YOU WILL START THINKING ... and that's what he really wants you to do.

He has a very fluid style that makes for pleasant reading ... and it's not "work". I especially enjoyed the mini-scenarios.

I highly recommend this book.