In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources, and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is providing consumers with Cheaper and more abundant energy, Faster computing, Lighter vehicles, and myriad other goods. That same desire is fostering unprecedented prosperity, greater liberty, and yes, better environmental protection.Utilizing on-the-ground reporting from Ottawa to Panama City and Pittsburgh to Bakersfield, Bryce shows how we have, for centuries, been pushing for Smaller Faster solutions to our problems. From the vacuum tube, mass-produced fertilizer, and the printing press to mobile phones, nanotech, and advanced drill rigs, Bryce demonstrates how cutting-edge companies and breakthrough technologies have created a world in which people are living longer, freer, healthier, lives than at any time in human history.The push toward Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is happening across multiple sectors. Bryce profiles innovative individuals and companies, from long-established ones like Ford and Intel to upstarts like Aquion Energy and Khan Academy. And he zeroes in on the energy industry, proving that the future belongs to the high power density sources that can provide the enormous quantities of energy the world demands.The tools we need to save the planet aren't to be found in the technologies or lifestyles of the past. Nor must we sacrifice prosperity and human progress to ensure our survival. The catastrophists have been wrong since the days of Thomas Malthus. This is the time to embrace the innovators and businesses all over the world who are making things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper.

Narracion sintetizada de la historia de los gambusinos y los mineros mexicanos, desde el principio de la conquista y colonizacion espanola, escrita en forma cronologica describiendo la problematica para su supervivencia, en diferentes epocas de abundancia y decadencia, importantes acontecimientos mineros de 500 anos de historia, durante sus epocas bonancibles y de borrascas de la industria, hasta 2013 gran epoca de la mineria de mexicana. Historicamente desde sus origenes Mexico es un pais minero, el atractivo de los metales preciosos, fue un factor importante en la conquista y colonizacion de la Nueva Espana. Que son los metales y los minerales? Depositos de placeres auriferos: residuales, eluviales, aluviales, lateriticos, fosiles y de playa. La ruta de la plata, acunacion de monedas de oro y plata; el peso mexicano primer dolar del mundo y Mexico el primer productor de plata a nivel mundial. Efectos positivos y negativos de las empresas mineras extranjeras en Mexico.