Books Assessing Global Trends and Decision-Making
Between Two Ages: The 21st Century and the Crisis of Meaning
This book warns that the next three decades may be the most decisive 30-year period in history. To understand why, Between Two Ages offers an eagle's-eye view of how the cultural, technological and spiritual tectonic plates of life have been clashing and reshaping our lives, and how civilized existence struggles with this epic transformation as we seek renewal.
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The American Future: What would George and Tom Do Now?
Published by the Congressional Institute. Available from World Trends Research.
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Essays and Speeches
Toward a Defining Context for Our Times
"... The question I have been wrestling with for some time now is this: Do we comprehend-at a foundational level-what is happening to America and the world? Are we simply passing through what appears to be an extremely dangerous and difficult period of multiple crises, after which life will return to a more familiar normalcy? Or do these converging crises signal the end of the world, as we've known it? Is it reasonable to suggest that the next three decades will be the most decisive 30-year period in history? ..."
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Education and a Gyrating Global Environment
"... In an age when globalization is erasing all the old boundaries that provided identity, when young people get more information from watching TV than they do from sixteen years of classroom instruction, when all knowledge is available by the press of a computer button, when TV's commercial advertising has become the primary source of value formation, then the basic question becomes, "What is education? What is the product education seeks to produce?..."
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Global Changes Reshaping the Corporate Environment
"...How are we to make sense of how the world is changing? Jihad vs. McWorld. Nukes in North Korea. A potential India-Pakistan nuclear shoot-out. The merger of human and artificial intelligence creating what the scientists call the "post-human" era. We seem to have come to the end of the world, as we've known it. The next three decades increasingly loom as the most decisive 30-year period in history..."
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Sleepwalking Through the Apocalypse
"...But for us, the question remains, what is the significance of 9/11 for America and the world? My own view is that 9/11 is but part of a far larger process that even now needs greater understanding and evaluation..."
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Understanding our Moment in History
"...For it's increasingly clear that we're not just facing a few critical problems here and there. We appear to be at some major junction in human affairs. I suggest part of understanding how best to go forward lies in comprehending the significance of our particular historic moment..."
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What are the Two Ages?
"...Historians frequently divide the past into different periods or "ages." Thus in Western history we speak of the Middle Ages or the Renaissance or the Industrial Age. Each era is defined by certain characteristics. The time between one phase and the next can be both disruptive as well as full of the promise of new possibilities. Today, we are living in just such an "in-between" period..."
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Helpful Hints for Living Between the Two Ages
"...Studying the high points of the past two centuries so that today's events are understood within the context of the cultural, technological and psychological trends shaping contemporary life...."
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