Hinds takes offers a fresh perspective on the social, political, and economic disturbances now affecting our world. This book looks at those disturbances not as separate problems, but rather as the coherent symptoms of a deep technological revolution that is changing the shape of society on the scale of the Industrial Revolution: the Connectivity Revolution, the basis of the New Economy. Analyzing the resistance to change that erupted violently in response to that last major economic...
Offers a fresh perspective on the social, political, and economic disturbances now affecting our world.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionIResistance to Change, Stagnation, and Destructiveness11The New Economy32The Economic Disruptions253Riches and Stagnation394Cold-Blooded Destructiveness575The Resurgence of Fundamentalism796The Inversion of Reality1037Divisiveness and Social Interest115IIThe Road Ahead1298The Challenge1319The False Solutions13510Politics and the New Internation Order15111The Problem of Social Cohesion16512Forever Flowing179Bibliography183Index193