The End of the Future - The Waning of the High-Tech World

Represents the first calm, detailed, and rational description of the imminent end of western industrial civilization as we know it.

List of contents

Introduction
The Futures that Failed
Mythinformation and the Computer Bluff
Space Brought Down to Earth
Back to the Balloon
Materials: Back to Basics
Live Longer--Suffer More
The End of Scientific Magic
The Relentless Cycle of History

About the author

JEAN GIMPEL is a historian of technology and the cycles of civilization. He is the author of several works devoted to the scientific culture of the Middle Ages, including two bestselling books, The Cathedral Builders and The Mediaeval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages.

Summary

This book represents the first calm, detailed, and rational description of the imminent end of western industrial civilization as we know it.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Gimpel, Gimpel Jean
• Assisted by: Helen McPhail (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.1995
• EAN: 9780275952808
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95280-8
• No. of pages: 138
• Weight: 227 g
• Series: Praeger Studies on the 21st Ce; Praeger Studies on the 21st Ce
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Technology: general issues, Development Studies