Is this a premonition of the future?
936185
Very well thought out. Based on real world events. I also bought Reinventing the Collapse. Read these, along with "The Fourth Turning" and you'll scare the heck out of yourself.
4651705
This book is very thought provoking. Could this be an aspect of what the future may be like? Who really knows. I was immediately sucked in and read the book in one night. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it to others.
1518200
An interesting futuristic exposition of where  current political, economic and environmental trends will lead us in a century if they remain unchanged. Reads like  apocalyptic fiction but it is a chillingly high probability look at our future.
4553531
I was a Pre tribulation believer before I read this book.
Now I am awake and can see that we are going to go through something's, before we go home. Time is short prepare your heart for the Lord's return. And Do Not Fear! For He, who is in you, is greater than he who is in the world.
4230931
Like, totally. California Big Sur and the Esalen Institute of thinking and heigher being.  Like, the totally far out concepts of the future.  Like, the 'tres bien' of the major problematic of our time.  Like, can you tell I know french?
2414611
Not much into futuristic reading but this intrigues one with the possibilities .  Could this really happen?  There is a glimmer of potential to cause some concern.
1938102
Could it happen here?  Is it already happening already?  What could happen and why.. . . . . . .
2200905
This book promises to be an "Apocalypse of thought," and it is - it absolutely is!!! ... SPOILERS ...

So the human being exists as two, maybe three things, maybe more - the ego (us in our bodies experiencing time), and the other / the visitors (us without the dimension of time - perhaps) ... the other is filtered through the mind which interacts with culture and the environment to form the ego, (us in our bodies experiencing time), but what is the other? It is a plasma ball that causes us to hallucinate our own culture's myths and stories. Now you may think this sounds crazy, but surprisingly, this seems very possible, as Kripal so articulately argues. But to what end? Why? Is it our own subliminal evolution manifesting within some of us? Is it other beings peering in from the other side of the mirror? What is interacting with us, causing us to live our own stories, manifesting very human progress itself? What is it? Is it us? Are we it? Is it something else? Is it nothing? This book is magnificent and I cannot articulate its contribution to thought. I have not read anything so inwardly provoking in the field since Vallee's "Messengers of Deception" or Paul Davies' "Are We Alone?" I would more than recommend this book, I would categorize it as vital reading. It is that rare read that causes the mind to find insight unto itself ...
2723740
That said both the para normal ability to sense the future in limited detail and the willingness to accept the visions show a high-level of adaptability in the lead character.

It is further enhanced by his willingness to accept the idea that a computer could become sentinet.( SElf  AWARE)

This may well be part of the future story line.

Fine book looking forward to the next two.

SEWERAGE@EARTHLINK.NET
355129
I once read a statement about our current (2014) government - "The book 1984 was not intended to be a guideline to modern government".

There was some truth to that statement,  many of the concerns expressed in 1984 about the then "future" government - have come to pass in our current government.  examples: NSA monitoring everyone at all times (big brother is watching),  thinking and speaking being controlled (Political correctness vs 'thinkspeach').  1984 was scary accurate in some of it's predictions.

In similarity, I wonder if future generations will look back at Goodwins book as much the same as his contemporary George Orwell.
Will we find that future generations look back and wonder... "all the signs where there, heck Mark Goodwin wrote a book predicting it"... .

Goodwins book is about the an upcoming US economic collapse that is the result of poor choices (the people and government), many of which the American people have made recently or will need to make in the near future.  While this is not by any means a guaranteed progression of our economy,  it is a reasonably acceptable possibility.
1958251
This book shows what the future could look like.  The author used the $13T debt that we had in 2013, not the $18T we now have in 2015.  We cannot continue to spend money we don't have.  The 2019 depicted in this book could easily be 2017.  Scary thought!
4111572
I loved the thought that a wish can become your future. I have experienced this before it continues to excite and amaze me. Great book.
3135470
The strinking resemblance between the world in 1984 and our reality in 2018 makes me wonder if utopia has been refurbished into a mistaken but factual world that was never meant to be.
1681357
No one knows what tomorrow may bring but I would rather look forward to something with excitement instead of a "maybe this will happen or not" attitude.  I didn't really care for the mediocre attitude - shouldn't we strive / expect more.  Sometimes there is disappointment but it's better than shrugging ones shoulders and saying "oh well".  Shouldn't we have a more positive attitude.  Yes, we need to be realistic about things.  If someone has cancer or any other serious illness a positive attitude is much more helpful than "maybe they will beat it, maybe they won't.  Sorry but I find this attitude depressing.  Perhaps this attitude is why so many of our younger generation does not strive for things, just does enough in school to get by or drops out of school.
2953691
This concept is pseudoscience There is  no way to control how far you travel in time.. No plans to build an electronic indicator (  digital clock/calender)  to know how far you traveled to the past of future. Tim S.
1908041
This book was written so many years ago, when he saw the vision and there is no doubt in my mind it was from God. Everything he foresaw so far has come to pass exactly as he saw it. There is no time reference as to when these things will all be fulfilled but most of them have already so I'm looking up!
2369838
Are the people going to Heaven decendants of the Anunaki who have demonstrated that they are worthy of the City of Gold.  In my fantasies I always belived I was not from here, for I knew so many things before I was formally schooled.  I was rediscovering that which I knew--this book I am judging by its cover.  When I was five years old in 1959, I knew that we needed gold to maintain our atmostphere and fuel our ships on our Home Planet.  Is Jesus going to return between 2012 (Mayan reference) and Friday, April 13, 2039 (the last passing of the serpent--Apothis {asteroid}).

No one knows the exact time except for the Father Creator.  Signs abound; take care for time is coming to end--take it from someone who knows the signs since I was five and started formal study on July 4, 1981.  Like a thief He will come, stay alert and DO NOT shut the door on Him.  Au revoir, adios, good-bye!