Publisher's Synopsis
Tortoise is a new media organisation set up by James Harding (former Director of BBC News), Katie Vanneck-Smith (former President of the Wall Street Journal) and Matthew Barzun (US Ambassador to the UK under President Obama). Their mission is to slow down and open up journalism, taking the time to see the fuller picture, to make sense of the forces shaping our future and investigate what's unseen.
Each short book in the Futures series presents an original future vision by an accomplished writer and/or subject expert. Read individually, these books will inform, entertain and challenge. Collectively, they will inspire readers to imagine what might lie ahead, to figure out how they might like the future to look, and think about how we might make the transition from here to there.
In The Future of Antiquity, Sir Richard Lambert - chair of the board at the British Museum - examines how our view of the ancient past has been influenced by centuries of Western hegemony, and how that is likely to change as our uncertain new age of power relations takes shape.
