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Infinite progress : how the Internet and technology will end ignorance, disease, poverty, hunger, and war / Byron Reese.
Author
Reese, Byron
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
Austin, Tex. : Greenleaf Book Group, ©2013.
Description
304 pages ; 24 cm
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ReCAP - Remote Storage
HM851 .R44 2013
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Internet
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Social aspects
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Technology
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Social aspects
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Forecasting
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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.
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ISBN
9781608324040 ((hardbound))
1608324044 ((hardbound))
LCCN
2012951267
OCLC
815523535
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