The future
Subtitle: six drivers of global change
By: Al Gore
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780812992946; 9780679644309
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Social change; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Business Development; Globalization; Global environmental change; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization; Technological innovations; Economic history
Description: "The consequential age we are living in will be remembered as one of the great turning points in civilization. Once we turn, though, where will we be? That is the compelling question Al Gore sets out to answer by examining the drivers of global change, connecting the dots among the social, economic, and political forces shaping our present and future. A rising global consciousness is forcing people around the world, but especially Americans, to rethink their basic assumptions about how the world works, and, even more fundamentally, how it should and can work. Borders matter less than ever. Technology is constantly reordering the way we live, think, work, learn, love, pray, and play"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-387) and index.
Table of contents: title: Earth Inc.; title: The global mind; title: Power in the balance; title: Outgrowth; title: The reinvention of life and death; title: The edge.