{"value"=>"<p>The unpublished works include manuscripts and typescripts from 1980 to 1998. During this period Esfandiary taught his seminar at UCLA Extension School and gave seminars on long-range planning to corporate audiences and governmental agencies. The unpublished writings deal most aggressively with subjects such as immortality and the postindustrial age. These unpublished projects were often ongoing works for which Esfandiary would collect resources in contemporary scientific periodicals as evidence to his vivid predictions of life in the future. The works were composed as confident manifestos by an author whose predictions about the future had already come about. For example, the 20th century according to Esfandiary began with post offices, the early postindustrial age (1960-2000) had developed e-mail while the advanced postindustrial age (2000-2040) would witness direct brain-to-brain and body-to-body hook ups. Genetics, organ transplants, medical advances in aging, globalism and changing social norms were all part of Esfandiary's predictions in his unpublished writings. \"Countdown to Immortality\" dates from 1980 and was completed in 1985, but additions continued to 1998. The unpublished works share chapters and were composed in sections. \"Abundance and Immortality: The Post Industrial World 2000-2040\" included edited sections previously titled \"Coming Age of Abundance,\" \"Guide to the Post-Industrial Age'\" and \"What is the Post-Industrial Age?\"</p>"}