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Possibility Sciences - by Terry Young (Hardcover)

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  • We are living through a civilizational inflection point.
  • About the Author: Terry Young is a cultural strategist and entrepreneur who helps leaders and organizations move beyond incremental change to achieve bold, meaningful breakthroughs.
  • 340 Pages
  • Social Science, Future Studies

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We are living through a civilizational inflection point. The world is generating possibility faster than our systems are built to absorb it. The strain we feel today is the interest payment on decades of short-horizon reflexes.

Advances in science, technology, and human knowledge have expanded what humanity can imagine and build. Yet many of the structures meant to carry society forward remain designed for a different era, optimized for near-term certainty, operational efficiency, and incremental adjustment rather than for the scale, complexity, and ambition the century ahead will require.

In Possibility Sciences, Terry Young introduces a new discipline for an age of accelerating change. At the center of the book is what Young calls the Possibility Gap: the institutional mismatch between accelerating human capability and the structures meant to turn it into progress. Too often, breakthrough possibilities are met by institutional habits that preserve the existing order rather than build the conditions for new systems to emerge. Young argues that closing the Possibility Gap requires a new discipline, one capable of protecting bold ambition from the forces that would pull it back into the logic of the past.

Through concepts such as Return on Future, Zero-Waste Innovation, shared knowledge infrastructure, cross-domain combinatorial innovation, simulations, and human-AI partnership, Young shows how societies can redesign the conditions under which bold ideas survive, compound, and take hold.

Written for leaders, builders, policymakers, and strategists across sectors, Possibility Sciences is not simply a book about innovation. It is a foundational argument for a century in which imagination alone will not be enough; institutions themselves must become more capable of turning bold possibility into systemic progress.



About the Author



Terry Young is a cultural strategist and entrepreneur who helps leaders and organizations move beyond incremental change to achieve bold, meaningful breakthroughs. He is the founder of Possibility Sciences, an emerging discipline and operating system focused on how ambitious ideas survive the journey from vision to activation.

Young is the former CEO and founder of sparks & honey, a cultural intelligence consultancy within Omnicom that pioneered the use of AI-driven platforms to analyze emerging cultural signals at scale. Through his work, he has advised Fortune 500 companies, governments, and NGOs on innovation, future-focused strategy, and long-horizon transformation.

Earlier in his career, Young launched one of the first digital startups inside IPG, scaling it into a top-50 digital agency, before joining McKinsey & Company in Greater China, where he worked with senior leaders and helped incubate new ventures across Asia. He is a frequent speaker and writer on the structural shifts challenging today's institutions, including why bold ideas stall, how organizations escape incrementalism, and how leaders deploy capital with courage in uncertain environments.

Young's perspective is shaped by both executive leadership and lived systems work, including 27 months volunteering in Uralsk, Kazakhstan, supporting microcredit initiatives, small-business incubation, and community programs. He holds a master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and lives in New York City with his partner and son.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W)
Weight: 1.18 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 340
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Future Studies
Publisher: Ideapress Publishing
Format: Hardcover
Author: Terry Young
Language: English
Street Date: October 13, 2026
TCIN: 1010654645
UPC: 9781646873036
Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-2207
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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