{"product_id":"the-shrinking-future-why-more-and-more-people-no-longer-expect-life-to-get-better-9798258698896","title":"The Shrinking Future: Why More and More People No Longer Expect Life to Get Better","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Martin Halber\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe future has not disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has become smaller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eThe Shrinking Future\u003c\/b\u003e, Martin Halber explores one of the defining hidden conditions of modern life. More and more people still move forward in time, still work, still plan, still build, still adapt. But they no longer do so with the same underlying belief that life will become wider, safer, fuller, or more stable than it is now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not just a book about anxiety.\u003cbr\u003eIt is not a book about headlines.\u003cbr\u003eIt is not a book about one crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a book about what happens when the future itself stops feeling expansive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross housing, work, family formation, climate reality, public trust, and the fading credibility of progress, Halber shows how multiple pressures have fused into one deeper condition. The horizon has narrowed. Possibility feels thinner. More and more adults are organizing the present around a tomorrow they no longer trust to open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharp, serious, and emotionally exact, \u003cb\u003eThe Shrinking Future\u003c\/b\u003e gives language to a feeling many people already live with but rarely hear named clearly. The result is a powerful work of contemporary nonfiction about contraction, diminished expectation, and the quiet grief of entering the future already expecting less life from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who sense that what has been lost is not only security, but scale, this book offers something rare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecognition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883446878359,"sku":"9798258698896","price":1303.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258698896.webp?v=1781101925","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-shrinking-future-why-more-and-more-people-no-longer-expect-life-to-get-better-9798258698896","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}