The Long Boom: A Future History of the World, 1980-2020

Schwartz, Peter; Leyden, Peter; Hyatt, Joel

ISBN 10 : 1587990407 ISBN 13 : 9781587990403

Editeur : Texere Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

The authors begin at what they see as the birth of modern technology - 1980 - and chart the story of the furture through to 2020 in a captivating narrative format, inter-linked with material from a documentary produced in the year 2050 and a series of letters from a fictional character written in ten-year intervals beginning in 1980. The authors see the long boom as a period of sustained growth that could eventually double the world's economy every dozen years and bring increasing properity to billions of people on the planet. Today we are riding the early waves of this expanding economy that in time could do much to solve many of the intractable global problems, such as poverty and ease tension throughout the world. This, according to the authors, is the possibility. But it is not inevitable. We sill all have to make the choice to go for growth. 'The Long Boom' is an incredibly powerful vision of the future. It is radical, optomistic and captivating. It cannot be ignored.

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À propos de l'auteur

Peter Schwartz is the co-founder and chair of the influential international think-tank Global Business Network which specialises in corporate scenario planning for Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies in London. Peter Leyden is the former managing editor of Wired magazine and has written widely on technology and economic change for a number of other publications, including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Guardian. Joel Hyatt teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Texere Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1587990407
• ISBN 13: 9781587990403
• Reliure: Fournitures diverses
• Nombre de pages: 288
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