PDF edition – 2023 (first edition) 1️⃣ Quick Overview | Element | Details | |---------|---------| | Title | Historia del Futuro (Spanish) / The History of the Future (English) | | Author | David Diamond – futurist, historian of technology, and former senior analyst at the World Futures Council. | | Publication Year | 2023 (PDF self‑published, later picked up by FuturePress for print). | | Length | 312 pages (≈ 95,000 words). | | Genre | Non‑fiction, Futures Studies, History of Ideas, Technological Forecasting. | | Target Audience | Academics and students in history, sociology, and technology studies; policy‑makers; forward‑thinking business leaders; curious general readers who enjoy long‑form, evidence‑based speculation. | | Language | Spanish (original). An English translation (“The History of the Future”) is available under the same ISBN. | 2️⃣ What the Book Sets Out to Do Diamond’s central thesis is deceptively simple: the future we are building today is already a layered product of past imaginaries, institutional habits, and technological path‑dependencies . He argues that by tracing the genealogy of the “future” as a cultural construct —from prophetic myths in antiquity to modern AI roadmaps—we can better understand why certain trajectories dominate while others are systematically excluded.