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Age of Discovery
Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
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- English
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About this book
A study of how to address our contemporary renaissance by examining similarities with the original Renaissance.
The present is a contest between the bright and dark sides of discovery. To avoid being torn apart by its stresses, we need to recognize the fact—and gain courage and wisdom from the past. Age of Discovery shows how.
Now is the best moment in history to be alive, but we have never felt more anxious or divided. Human health, aggregate wealth and education are flourishing. Scientific discovery is racing forward. But the same global flows of trade, capital, people and ideas that make gains possible for some people deliver big losses to others—and make us all more vulnerable to one another.
Business and science are working giant revolutions upon our societies, but our politics and institutions evolve at a much slower pace. That's why, in a moment when everyone ought to be celebrating giant global gains, many of us are righteously angry at being left out and stressed about where we're headed.
To make sense of present shocks, we need to step back and recognize: we've been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, likewise redrew all maps of the world, democratized communication and sparked a flourishing of creative achievement. But their world also grappled with the same dark side of rapid change: social division, political extremism, insecurity, pandemics and other unintended consequences of discovery.
Now is the second Renaissance. We can still flourish—if we learn from the first.
Praise for Age of Discovery
"A bold mega-analysis of global education, health, prosperity and technology . . . incisive and rich in context and granularity." — Nature
"Essential reading to navigate the waves of innovation we face today." —Garry Kasparov, 13th World Chess Champion and Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation
The present is a contest between the bright and dark sides of discovery. To avoid being torn apart by its stresses, we need to recognize the fact—and gain courage and wisdom from the past. Age of Discovery shows how.
Now is the best moment in history to be alive, but we have never felt more anxious or divided. Human health, aggregate wealth and education are flourishing. Scientific discovery is racing forward. But the same global flows of trade, capital, people and ideas that make gains possible for some people deliver big losses to others—and make us all more vulnerable to one another.
Business and science are working giant revolutions upon our societies, but our politics and institutions evolve at a much slower pace. That's why, in a moment when everyone ought to be celebrating giant global gains, many of us are righteously angry at being left out and stressed about where we're headed.
To make sense of present shocks, we need to step back and recognize: we've been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, likewise redrew all maps of the world, democratized communication and sparked a flourishing of creative achievement. But their world also grappled with the same dark side of rapid change: social division, political extremism, insecurity, pandemics and other unintended consequences of discovery.
Now is the second Renaissance. We can still flourish—if we learn from the first.
Praise for Age of Discovery
"A bold mega-analysis of global education, health, prosperity and technology . . . incisive and rich in context and granularity." — Nature
"Essential reading to navigate the waves of innovation we face today." —Garry Kasparov, 13th World Chess Champion and Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: To Flounder or Flourish?
- Part I: The Facts of a Renaissance Age
- Chapter 2: The New World
- Chapter 3: New Tangles
- Chapter 4: Vitruvian Man
- Part II: Flourishing Genius
- Chapter 5: Copernican Revolutions
- Chapter 6: Cathedrals, Believers and Doubt
- Part III: Flourishing Risk
- Chapter 7: The Pox Is Spreading, Venice Is Sinking
- Chapter 8: Bonfires and Belonging
- Part IV: The Contest for our Future
- Chapter 9: David
- Notes
- Index
- Map: Europe and Selected Sites, c. 1500
- Map: The World and Selected Sites, c. 2016
- Acknowledgements
- Books by Ian Goldin
- About the Authors
- Newsletter Sign-Up
- Contents
- Copyright