Future perfect
Subtitle: the case for progress in a networked age
By: Steven Johnson
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781846147111
Subjects: Information technology; Social aspects; Progress; Information networks; Social networks; Society
Description: "Exploring a new vision of progress, Johnson argues that networked thinking holds the key to an incredible range of human achievements, and can transform everything from local government to drug research to arts funding and education. Future perfect paints a compelling portrait of a new model of political change that is already on the rise, and shows that despite Western political systems hopelessly gridlocked by old ideas, change for the better can happen, and that new solutions are on the horizon." --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The Peer Progressives; title: Part II. Peer Networks at Work; title: Communities: The Maple Syrup Event; title: Journalism: The Pothole Paradox; title: Technology: What Does the Internet Want?; title: Incentives: We Have a Winner!; title: Governance: Liquid Democracies; title: Corporations: Conscious Capitalism.