Future and Its Enemies The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress

Name: Future and Its Enemies The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress
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ISBN: 9780028741086

ISBN-10: 0028741080

ISBN-13: 9780028741086

Edition: 1998

Authors: Virginia I. Postrel

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Today we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our current condition -- as slaves to technology, coarsened by popular culture, and insecure in the face of economic change. The future, they tell us, is dangerously out of control, and unless we precisely govern the forces of change, we risk disaster. In The Future and Its Enemies, Virginia Postrel explodes the myths behind these claims. Using examples that range from medicine to fashion, she explores how progress truly occurs and demonstrates that human betterment depends not on conformity to one central vision but on creativity and…

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List price: $24.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 9/1/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Search for Tomorrow


The One Best Way


The Party of Life


The Infinite Series


The Tree of Knowledge


The Bonds of Life


Creating Nature


Fields of Play


On the Verge


Notes


Index