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A successful futurist, Yates makes his lifing flying around the world furnishing forecasts to world governments, corporations, and leadership forums, but his life begins to unravel when his girlfriend leaves him for a teacher, he witnesses a deadly soccer riot, and he presents a career-ending speech at South Africa's Futureworld Conference. Reprint.
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Yates is a Futurist.Which is a fancy way of saying he flies around the world, lecturing various conferences, confabs, and conglomerates, dispensing prepackaged bullshit in an attempt to stay just ahead of the latest trend and claim he saw it first. But now Yates has lost faith in the very future that he’s paid to sell and gives what should be a career-ending rant. Instead, a mysterious governmental group hires him to travel the globe and discover why the world seems to hate America. From Middle Eastern war zones to Polynesian superluxe corporate retreats, James Othmer takes us on a mordantly hilarious journey through corporate double-speak and global unrest to find the truth beneath the buzz.
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