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Age of Discovery
Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance
Age of Discovery
Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance
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'A landmark new book.' - The Guardian
Age of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the benefits of progress?
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.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Facts of a Renaissance Age
2. The New World
3. New Tangles
4. Vitruvian Man
Part II: Flourishing Genius
5. Copernican Revolutions
6. Cathedrals, Believers and Doubt
Part III: Flourishing Risk
7. The Pox is Spreading, Venice is Sinking
8. Bonfires and Belonging
Part IV: The Contest for our Future
9. David
Product details
| Published | 19 May 2016 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 328 |
| ISBN | 9781472936387 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Business |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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