Across the developed world, public confidence in politics and politicians has slumped Solutions that once worked in tackling acute problems like unemployment, crime or low educational standards are no longer producing results, and the grand ideologies that dominated the twentieth century seem bankrupt, empty of relevance and popular appeal, Yet thought has not ceased, and the last few years hav…
What Next? tackles the big questions about our global condition and our collective future with a verve and authority no other current commentator or political figure, on either side of the Atlantic or the Channel, could match. Energy, food, water, international crime, weapons proliferation, drug trafficking, climate change, epidemic disease, migration - the challenges facing our world are thems…
Reveals explosive changes currently taking place in Asia while considering how these changes will affect the rest of the world, predicting a major shift in international economic forces.
Sementara perhatian Barat telah difokuskan pada Uni Soviet dan Eropa Timur, revolusi yang lebih tenang dan kumulatif telah terjadi di Asia yang mungkin memiliki konsekuensi yang lebih besar bagi sejarah dunia. Saat kita bergerak menuju tahun 2000, Asia akan menjadi kawasan yang dominan di dunia: secara ekonomi, politik, dan budaya. Hingga tahun 1990-an, Barat menetapkan aturan. Sekarang, orang …
Megatrends was a prophetic work: The information society and global economy. once the stuff of controversial theory, are now part of daily life. Networks are replacing hierarchies as the prime model for getting things done inside and outside corporations. From telecommunications to interior design, "high tech/high touch" has come to define the new relationship between people and technology.