Seizing the Future: Dawn of the Macroindustrial Era / Edition 2

by Jonathan B. Imber

Overview

"Marked by verve, vision, and a thorough familiarity with the field, this book buoys the spirit, challenges conventional thinking, and arms the reader as do few comparable works in futuristics. Engagingly written, and free of both jargon and pretentiousness, it sets a high standard for 21st century explorations."—Arthur B. Shostak, Drexel University

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765804440
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	06/30/1998
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	444
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael G. Zey, an internationally recognized futurist and sociologist, is a professor at Montclair State University, and has written several books on the subjects of social, economic, and technological trends, including The Future Factor and Seizing the Future.

Table of Contents

One: The Promise of a Better World; 1: The Imperative of Growth; 2: Hyperprogress; 3: A Space off Our Own; 4: Breaking the Biological Constraints; 5: Fields off Plenty; Two: The Pathway to the Macroindustrial Society; 6: The Family as a Catalyst far Growth; 7: Revving Up the Knowledge Machine; 8: On the Frontiers off Human Potential; 9: Creating the Expansionary Culture We Need; 10: Seize the Future!; Epilogue to the Transaction Edition; Notes

Editorial Reviews

"Seizing the Future is a brilliant and exuberant antidote to the pessimistic poison being peddled by fashionable declinists." —Ronald Bailey, author of ECO-SCAM "[A] thoughtful argument of how the next generation will focus on massive industrialization, rather than create strictly an information-based economy." —Teresa McUsic, Morning Star-Telegram "Marked by verve, vision, and a thorough familiarity with the field, this book buoys the spirit, challenges conventional thinking, and arms the reader as do few comparable works in futuristics. Engagingly written, and free of both jargon and pretentiousness, it sets a high standard for twenty-first-century explorations." —Arthur B. Shostak, Drexel University

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