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Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance
Author(s): Ian Goldin (Author), Chris Kutarna (Author)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Business (UK)
- Publication Date: 21 Sept. 2017
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 560 pages
- ISBN-10: 147294352X
- ISBN-13: 9781472943521
Book Description
Now is humanity’s best moment. And our most fragile. Global health, wealth and education are booming. Scientific discovery is flourishing. But the same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others—and tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable.
We’ve been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, redrew all maps of the world, liberated information and shifted Western civilization from the medieval to the early modern era. Such change came at a price: social division, political extremism, economic shocks, pandemics and other unintended consequences of human endeavour.
Now is our
second Renaissance. In the face of terrorism, Brexit, refugee crises and the global impact of a Trump presidency, we can flourish—if we heed the urgent lessons of history. Age of Discovery, revised and updated for this paperback edition, shows us how.Editorial Reviews
Review
A bold mega-analysis of global education, health, prosperity and technology…incisive and rich in context and granularity. –Nature
An essential guide―and a superb ride―through our current stormy moment. –Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post Arianna Huffington
About the Author
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