lokale/globale gemeinschaft
die ausweitung durch prothesen
der moderne prothesenmensch

das verschwinden des körpers
die wahrnehmungs wandlung
polemik

the long boom
globalisierende gedanken
chancen

die vergangenheit der zukunft
HOTWIRED DONLOAD F E A T U R E S |  Issue 5.07 - July 1997
polemisch, hitzig und provozierent (viel zitiert)
ein auszug

 The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980 - 2020



 
  
We're facing 25 years of prosperity, 
    freedom, and a better environment for the whole world. You got a problem with 
    that? 
    

  

  
by Peter Schwartz 
    and Peter Leyden






 A bad meme - a contagious 
  idea - began spreading through the United States in the 1980s: America is in 
  decline, the world is going to hell, and our children's lives will be worse 
  than our own. The particulars are now familiar: Good jobs are disappearing, 
  working people are falling into poverty, the underclass is swelling, crime is 
  out of control. The post-Cold War world is fragmenting, and conflicts 
  are erupting all over the planet. The environment is imploding - 
  with global warming and ozone depletion, we'll all either die of cancer or 
  live in Waterworld. As for our kids, the collapsing educational system is 
  producing either gun-toting gangsters or burger-flipping dopes who can't read. 
   
  
By the late 1990s, another meme 
    began to gain ground. Borne of the surging stock market and an economy that 
    won't die down, this one is more positive: America is finally getting its 
    economic act together, the world is not such a dangerous place after all, 
    and our kids just might lead tolerable lives. Yet the good times will come 
    only to a privileged few, no more than a fortunate fifth of our society. 
    The vast majority in the United States and the world face a dire future of 
    increasingly desperate poverty. And the environment? It's a lost cause. 
    

    

    But 
    there's a new, very different meme, a radically optimistic meme: We are watching 
    the beginnings of a global economic boom on a scale never experienced before. 
    We have entered a period of sustained growth that could eventually double 
    the world's economy every dozen years and bring increasing prosperity for 
    - quite literally - billions of people on the planet. We are riding the early 
    waves of a 25-year run of a greatly expanding economy that will do much to 
    solve seemingly intractable problems like poverty and to ease tensions throughout 
    the world. And we'll do it without blowing the lid off the environment. [...] 
    
  
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