"We live in interesting times and The Shift Age is an enlightening view of the muck and miracle of it all. I highly recommend this eye-opening book by futurist David Houle. Wow!"
- Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., Author of "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway" and "Embracing Uncertainty"
"Fills a useful niche between the technical emphasis of Kurzweil and the societal aspects of Toffler"
- Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist NASA Langley Research Center
"The Shift Age is a must read for anyone who is interested in where humanity is headed in coming generations. Houle has been pondering the cultural evolution of our species for decades and has insightful comments on a wide range of factors that are affecting the future development of world civilization. From the globalization of economics, the pervasive impact of science and technology, the uncertainties of energy and global warming, the morphing of media, to the way the future will affect our everyday lives, this book provides a overview of how our progeny will live, work, and play in coming decades. If you want to learn more about what the future of our daily lives portends, read The Shift Age."
- Bob Citron, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Foundation for the Future
"The Shift Age lifts us out of the rapids of techno-change and helps us see the course of the river we've been rafting in."
- Howard Bloom, Author of "The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History" and "Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century"
David Houle's "Shift Age" offers an astounding proposition. Throughout time historians have contrasted periods of constancy and periods of change by a series of "age"-- prehistorically, Stone age to Iron age. More recently the Industrial age transformed into theIinformation age. Now Houle proposes that the Information age is ending with the emergence of an age of constant change. As contradictory as that sounds Houle makes sense. Read this book!
- Reese Schonfeld, Co-Founder of CNN, CNN Headline News and The Food Network
"The Shift Age is a well-written and pivotal book. The author of Shift Age is David Houle, a sharp-eyed futurist with a gift for being ahead of the curve. Houle offers a wealth of predictive information and details why and how savvy business leaders use transformative technologies to attract empowered free-agent consumers in the shift age"
- Richard Noyes former Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"In that moment as your car's gears shift from low to high, there is a fractional pause… and then rapid acceleration. As culture, society, business and humanity shift out of the Industrial Age, we are in that momentary pause between the past and the future. Every aspect of our lives is being impacted by the rapid and radical acceleration of technological change. David Houle's important book The Shift Age is a fascinating navigational tool that will help guide you as you speed into a future that even our imaginations cannot adequately prepare us to steer through."
- Jack Myers, Editor and Publisher of www.JackMyers.com
"At last a book that explains where we're going and how we got there-written in plain English and designed for short-attention-span readers. Houle writes for all of us who buy more books than we read. After reading just a few of these commentaries, even we luddites can predict what's about to happen and understand the transformations that are now upon us."
- Bob Sirott, NBC5 Chicago News Anchor and WGN Radio Host
"Celebrated futurist David Houle is the perfect guide to show us the next great period of human development. Houle introduces us to The Shift Age, the post-Information Age world of global connectedness and individual freedom. To paraphrase another noted futurist, "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride."
- Charles Memminger, Columnist for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and Author of "Hey Waiter, There's an Umbrella in My Drink!"
"Capturing the dynamics, distress, and decisions we all face, The Shift Age is the travel guide for the future."
- Tom Hudson, Managing Editor, First Business TV
"The Shift Age is a treasure for those of us who decide what to do on the basis of compelling visions of the future."
- Leo J. Shapiro, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Leo J. Shapiro & Associates
"The Threshold Decades (1985-2005) were a time of transformative change. The human landscape was so altered that the door closed on what had been and swung wide open on what will be". David Houle shares with us such profound thoughts and vision about the future of humanity in his recent book - The Shift Age. This book will take you on a guided visual tour on the future of human civilization. From industrial age to information age; from space age to the dawn of another indefinable era just beginning, the readers will sample what has been forgotten, being happening and envisioned throughout the 150,000 years of human history, and experiencing a pleasant and casual exploration of what the Shift Age will take humanity on its irreverserable path of evolutionary journey.
As first-generation immigrant, a foreign graduate student came from China in the very beginning of the Threshold Decade; I have always believed and dreamed what David envisioned on the inevitable merge of underlying beliefs and philosophies of the East and West cultures - Yes, "humanity was on the path to becoming one", and "All is One" as he puts it vividly. I often wondered how we would let the world realize that we are quietly entering the edge of yet another revolutionary shift in society, technology and life styles? The answers are found in the Shift Age, precisely because such changes are being driven by the hopes, inspirations and human ingenuities that constantly motivate all thinkers, explorers like David Houle, past and future. I found the optimism of the human spirit permeated in this book extremely refreshing, and full of excitement. It's an amazing book and a must read!
- Dr. Feng Hsu, Sr. NASA Engineer, Head of Technical & Technology Risk Assessment and Management at NASA GSFC
