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Age of Discovery - Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance () (Paperback, Revised Edition)
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Age of Discovery - Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance () (Paperback, Revised Edition)
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The present is a contest between the bright and dark sides of
discovery. To avoid being torn apart by its stresses, we need to
recognize the fact-and gain courage and wisdom from the past. Age
of Discovery shows how. Now is the best moment in history to be
alive, but we have never felt more anxious or divided. Human
health, aggregate wealth and education are flourishing. Scientific
discovery is racing forward. But the same global flows of trade,
capital, people and ideas that make gains possible for some people
deliver big losses to others-and make us all more vulnerable to one
another. Business and science are working giant revolutions upon
our societies, but our politics and institutions evolve at a much
slower pace. That's why, in a moment when everyone ought to be
celebrating giant global gains, many of us are righteously angry at
being left out and stressed about where we're headed. To make sense
of present shocks, we need to step back and recognize: we've been
here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus,
Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, likewise redrew all maps of the
world, democratized communication and sparked a flourishing of
creative achievement. But their world also grappled with the same
dark side of rapid change: social division, political extremism,
insecurity, pandemics and other unintended consequences of
discovery. Now is the second Renaissance. We can still flourish-if
we learn from the first.
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