Ingenuity Gap Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future

Name: Ingenuity Gap Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future
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ISBN: 9780375713286

ISBN-10: 037571328X

ISBN-13: 9780375713286

Edition: 2002

Authors: Thomas Homer-Dixon

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Despite all of society’s advances, our problems proliferate. Wars abound, environmental degradation accelerates, economies topple overnight, and pandemics such as AIDS and tuberculosis continue to spread. The Internet and other media help to disseminate knowledge, but they’ve also created an “info-glut” and left us too little time to process it. What’s more, advances in technology have made the world so bewilderingly fast-paced and complex that fewer people are able even to grasp the problems, let alone generate solutions. That space between the problems that arise and our ability to solve them is “the ingenuity gap,” and as we careen towards an increasingly harried and hectic future, the…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/13/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.18" wide x 7.92" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English