Georisk 2045

If you had read the work of Milton L. L. Vandergroot twenty years ago, you would not be surprised at the state of the world today. The only people with access to Vandergroot's writing twenty years ago, however, were from the sliver of humanity that could afford his fees. Now, in a remarkable act of altruism worthy of an honorary degree from a mid-to-upper tier university, the world's foremost georisk advisor is making a selection of his future-thinking available to the general public, all for the price of a Frappuccino.

In GEORISK 2045, Vandergroot describes how our world will change over the next two decades. The book is part memoir, charting the rich and varied life of its author and recounting the professional revelations and resentments that inspired his industry-leading forecasting. And it is also partly a guidebook to confronting global catastrophe, written for the benefit of anyone who thinks that "winging it" might be sufficient preparation for a future marked by ecological collapse, societal breakdown, great power conflict, and self-replicating robot dogs.

But there's more. Vandergroot shares advice for how you, just like the elites he vacations with, might even cash in on the chaos to come. And as a bonus, GEORISK 2045 includes a visualization exercise describing a typical day in 2045, in prose so lurid that Vandergroot's own publisher urged him to tone it down or, better still, just leave it out altogether.

Unflinching, unsettling, and unconventionally structured, this is a book that several thoughtful readers bought in bulk to gift to family, friends, lovers, coworkers, neighbors, schools, and padel partners. Just an idea.