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The future : six drivers of global change

Gore, Albert 1948- (Author).

Summary: "The consequential age we are living in will be remembered as one of the great turning points in civilization. Once we turn, though, where will we be? That is the compelling question Al Gore sets out to answer by examining the drivers of global change, connecting the dots among the social, economic, and political forces shaping our present and future. A rising global consciousness is forcing people around the world, but especially Americans, to rethink their basic assumptions about how the world works, and, even more fundamentally, how it should and can work. Borders matter less than ever. Technology is constantly reordering the way we live, think, work, learn, love, pray, and play"--

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  • ISBN: 9780812992946 (hc.) :
  • ISBN: 0812992946 (hc.)
  • Physical Description: print
    xxxi, 558 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, c2013.

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General Note:
CatMonthString:june.13
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-387) and index.
Subject: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Business Development
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
Technological innovations
Global environmental change
Economic history -- 21st century
Globalization
Social change

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Summary: "The consequential age we are living in will be remembered as one of the great turning points in civilization. Once we turn, though, where will we be? That is the compelling question Al Gore sets out to answer by examining the drivers of global change, connecting the dots among the social, economic, and political forces shaping our present and future. A rising global consciousness is forcing people around the world, but especially Americans, to rethink their basic assumptions about how the world works, and, even more fundamentally, how it should and can work. Borders matter less than ever. Technology is constantly reordering the way we live, think, work, learn, love, pray, and play"--

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