Download e-book for iPad: The Technology Imperative by John Psarouthakis

By John Psarouthakis

If the 20 th Century used to be the yank Century, why does the twenty first Century look so daunting for the US? If we're nonetheless the globe's prime producer (and we are), why does globalization terrify us? If the complete global sends its top and brightest to American graduate colleges, why does our schooling procedure want reform? Why is the main prosperous state mired in a stagnant financial system? Why do politicians of each stripe locate greatest traction with empty chants of: 'Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!'? This small yet robust publication insists we needs to outline our difficulties earlier than looking ideas. Dr. John Psarouthakis makes use of that basic engineering precept to illustrate, in transparent and stress-free prose, that a unmarried challenge (and chance) underlies all of the above questions. simply as our nineteenth Century farmer country continued social upheaval yet prospered in an important shift to an city and production twentieth Century, we are facing a brand new upheaval at the present time. either huge, immense transitions stem from the comparable omnipotent, irreversible force-technological growth. This time round, Psarouthakis demonstrates, the nice hazard is that populist political rhetoric will strangle the free-market generator of wealth for all american citizens, leaving us with a failed financial system and a failed country. the yankee capitalist monetary engine wishes fix, now. It needs to locate new methods of sharing the wealth it creates-as it did through task production within the twentieth Century-or the politicians will make sure that the winning gloom might be warranted. That problem is THE know-how IMPERATIVE.

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