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: 9780684862699

ISBN-10: 0684862697

ISBN-13: 9780684862699

Edition: 1999

Authors: Virginia 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. InThe 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 decentralized,…

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List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 12/8/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.550
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