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The Future and Its Enemies
The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress
Taschenbuch von Virginia I. Postrel
Sprache: Englisch

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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 decentralized, open-ended trial and error. She argues that these two opposing world-views -- "stasis" vs. "dynamism" -- are replacing "left" and "right" to define our cultural and political debate as we enter the next century.

In this bold exploration of how civilizations learn, Postrel heralds a fundamental shift in the way we view politics, culture, technology, and society as we face an unknown -- and invigorating -- future.
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 decentralized, open-ended trial and error. She argues that these two opposing world-views -- "stasis" vs. "dynamism" -- are replacing "left" and "right" to define our cultural and political debate as we enter the next century.

In this bold exploration of how civilizations learn, Postrel heralds a fundamental shift in the way we view politics, culture, technology, and society as we face an unknown -- and invigorating -- future.
Ãœber den Autor
Virginia Postrel is a columnist for Bloomberg View and has been a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Forbes. Formerly the editor of Reason magazine, she is the author of The Substance of Style and The Future and Its Enemies. She teaches a special seminar on glamour in the Branding program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She lives in Los Angeles.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
CONTENTS

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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 290
ISBN-13: 9780684862699
ISBN-10: 0684862697
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Postrel, Virginia I.
Hersteller: Free Press
Maße: 216 x 140 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Virginia I. Postrel
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.1999
Gewicht: 0,412 kg
preigu-id: 106762681
Ãœber den Autor
Virginia Postrel is a columnist for Bloomberg View and has been a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Forbes. Formerly the editor of Reason magazine, she is the author of The Substance of Style and The Future and Its Enemies. She teaches a special seminar on glamour in the Branding program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She lives in Los Angeles.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
CONTENTS

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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 290
ISBN-13: 9780684862699
ISBN-10: 0684862697
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Postrel, Virginia I.
Hersteller: Free Press
Maße: 216 x 140 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Virginia I. Postrel
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.1999
Gewicht: 0,412 kg
preigu-id: 106762681
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