Infinite progress : how the Internet and technology will end ignorance, disease, poverty, hunger, and war / Byron Reese.

Author
Reese, Byron [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Austin, Tex. : Greenleaf Book Group, ©2013.
Description
304 pages ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    • Illustrates how the internet, human ingenuity, and technological innovation will help us overcome what he identifies as the five plagues of our existence: ignorance, disease, poverty, hunger, and war.
    • Social Forecasting, Futurology.
    • Information Technology Industries.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Machine generated contents note: An Optimist's Reasoning, in Five Easy Premises
    • Futurists Often Get It Wrong
    • History Can Help Us Get It Right
    • Internet Technology + Human Ingenuity = Infinite Promise
    • Accelerating Progress is Inevitable
    • The New Renaissance Has Begun
    • The End of Ignorance
    • The High Cost of Ignorance
    • Your Digital Echo
    • Surprise! We share
    • Data and Knowledge
    • Wise Decisions
    • The Jim Haynes Effect
    • How the Internet and Technology Will End Ignorance
    • The End of Disease
    • Disease (and Cure) Defined
    • "Could You Patent the Sun?"
    • Dairymaids, Folklore, and Smallpox
    • A Reason to Hope
    • Disease: A Timeline
    • We May Already Have the Answer
    • The Promise of the Genome
    • Information and Disease
    • How the Internet and Technology Will End Disease
    • The End of Poverty
    • How Is Wealth Created?
    • Scarcity
    • Free Trade, Technological Displacement, and Outsourcing
    • Chad Gets a Better Job
    • Robots and Nanites and Jobs, Oh My! --
    • Contents note continued: Wealth and Poverty in History
    • Earning a "Living"
    • Left Behind
    • How the Internet and Technology Will End Poverty
    • The End of Hunger
    • A History of the Hungry
    • Nutrition
    • Enough Food Already
    • Why Is There Hunger?
    • Agriculture 1.1
    • The End of the Farmer
    • Genomics
    • Information and Agriculture
    • Food as a Human Right
    • Beyond Hungry to Healthy
    • How the Internet and Technology Will End Hunger
    • The End of War
    • War
    • Civilization
    • Must We End War?
    • Is It Possible to End War?
    • The Difficulties of Ending War
    • How the Internet and Technology Will End War
    • In Conclusion
    • Do We Lose Our Humanity?
    • What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
    • Optimism, Revisited.
    ISBN
    • 9781608324040 ((hardbound))
    • 1608324044 ((hardbound))
    LCCN
    2012951267
    OCLC
    815523535
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