Optimist’s Guide In The Age 0f Accelerations.

Who is looking for an TV- and news-less vacation I really recommend this book: Its an optimist’s guide to thriving in the age of accelerations. 
We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your children. You can’t miss it when you read the newspapers, watch the news or just here on FaceBook. Our lives are speeding up - and it is dizzying.
Friedman’s thesis is that to understand the twenty-first century, you need to understand that the planet’s three largest forces: Moore’s law (technology), the market (globalisation) and Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss) are accelerating at once, transforming workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics and community. An extraordinary release of energy is reshaping everything from how we hail a taxi to the fate of nations to our most intimate relationships. It is creating vast new opportunities for individuals and small groups to save the world - or perhaps to destroy it…

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