Age of discovery : navigating the storms of our second renaissance

Goldin, Ian, 1955- author.

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Now is humanity's best moment. And our most fragile. Global health, wealth and education are booming. Scientific discovery is flourishing. But the same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others-and tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable. We've been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, redrew all maps of the world, liberated information a...

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Civilization, Modern 21st century

Civilization, Modern 21st century Forecasting

Progress Forecasting

Renaissance

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ISBN:

9781472943521

Edition:

Revised edition

Description:

xxv, 521 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 444-492) and index

Contents:

Preface to the paperback edition
Acknowledgements. To flounder or flourish? : The moment we're in
The past is prologue
The way forward
Good housekeeping. Part 1 Making sense of a second Renaissance : New world : New maps
New media. New tangles : Trade
Finance
People
Technology
Beyond "connected". Vitruvian man : From misery to middle class
A new golden age
Why now?
Tarnish on a golden age
Fresh stains
Glimpsing greatness. Part 2 Flourishing genius : Copernican revolutions : Paradigm shifts
New shifts
The formula for flourishing genius. cathedrals, believers and doubt : Collective efforts
Collective doubt
Four reasons to believe
Reasons to fear. Part 3 Flourishing risk : The pox is spreading, Venice is sinking : The downside of linking up
Too complex to untangle, too concentrated to keep safe
New poxes
Merchants of destruction
Taking nothing for granted. Prophets and bonfires : Populist bonfires
A second bonfire of vanity
From bonfire to revolution
A new crisis of faith
Losing control of the narrative
Steering the second Renaissance. Part 4 The contest for our future : David : Magnify flourishing genius
Mitigate flourishing risk
Goliath. Notes
Index

Control Number:

2524210

Other Authors:

Kutarna, Chris, author

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