Author: Robin Blackburn
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844677656
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Most countries face the future with an ageing population, yet most governments are cutting back on pensions and the care services needed by the elderly. Robin Blackburn exposes the perverse reasoning and special interests which have combined to produce this nonsensical state of affairs. This updated paperback edition of Age Shock includes a new preface explaining why the credit crunch and eurozone crisis have had such a devastating impact and outlining a way to guarantee decent pensions and care provision.
Age Shock
Author: Robin Blackburn
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844677656
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Most countries face the future with an ageing population, yet most governments are cutting back on pensions and the care services needed by the elderly. Robin Blackburn exposes the perverse reasoning and special interests which have combined to produce this nonsensical state of affairs. This updated paperback edition of Age Shock includes a new preface explaining why the credit crunch and eurozone crisis have had such a devastating impact and outlining a way to guarantee decent pensions and care provision.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844677656
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Most countries face the future with an ageing population, yet most governments are cutting back on pensions and the care services needed by the elderly. Robin Blackburn exposes the perverse reasoning and special interests which have combined to produce this nonsensical state of affairs. This updated paperback edition of Age Shock includes a new preface explaining why the credit crunch and eurozone crisis have had such a devastating impact and outlining a way to guarantee decent pensions and care provision.
Motor Age
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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Future Shock
Author: Alvin Toffler
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0593159764
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises. “Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.” —The Wall Street Journal Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers for a special report, inspired composers to write symphonies and rock music, gave a powerful new concept to social science, and added a phrase to our language. Published in over fifty countries, Future Shock is the most important study of change and adaptation in our time. In many ways, Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations—even our patterns of friendship and love. But Future Shock also illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless clichés about today. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization: the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships—all of them temporary. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0593159764
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises. “Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.” —The Wall Street Journal Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers for a special report, inspired composers to write symphonies and rock music, gave a powerful new concept to social science, and added a phrase to our language. Published in over fifty countries, Future Shock is the most important study of change and adaptation in our time. In many ways, Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations—even our patterns of friendship and love. But Future Shock also illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless clichés about today. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization: the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships—all of them temporary. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.
Chilton's Motor Age
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Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Present Shock
Author: Douglas Rushkoff
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1617230103
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this "now" is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1617230103
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this "now" is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.
The Living Age
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Shock of Gray
Author: Ted Fishman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416551034
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In "Shock of Gray," Ted Fishman explains the astouding economic and political changes we face as our world suddenly grows old.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416551034
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In "Shock of Gray," Ted Fishman explains the astouding economic and political changes we face as our world suddenly grows old.
Horseless Age
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Electrical Age
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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The Medical Age
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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