Towards a New Enlightenment? : A Transcendent Decade

Baddeley, Michelle; Bryson, Joanna J.; Chau, Nancy H.; Eichengreen, Barry; Gonzalez, Francisco

ISBN 10: 8417141219 / ISBN 13: 9788417141219

Published by Turner, 2019

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Synopsis:

• Addresses key issues in understanding the decade 2008-2018 and its impact on the societies of the future
• Brings together the articles B28of twenty-two prestigious international experts in different fields of thought
• Through an informative approach, the essays form a transversal view of today's thinking
• This is the tenth title of the Open Mind essay collection published by BBVA.A27

We are living through years of great importance, marked by the unstoppable evolution of technology, science and the information society. This book brings together twenty-two essays written by prestigious researchers from the world's leading universities on areas as diverse as crucial to our future: climate change, artificial intelligence, economics, cyber-security and geopolitics, democracy, anthropology, new media, astrophysics and cosmology, nanotechnology, biomedicine, globalisation, gender theory and the cities of the future.

Text by Michelle Baddeley, Virginia Burkett, Manuel Castells, Nancy Chau, Barry Eichengreen, Amos N. Guiora, Ravi Kanbur, Ramón López de Mántaras, Maria Martinon-Torres, José M. Mato, Diana Owen, Alex Pentland, Carlo Ratti, Martin Rees, Victoria Robinson, Daniela Rus, José Manuel Sánchez-Ron, Vivien A. Schmidt, Samuel H. Sternberg, Sandip Tiwari, Ernesto Zedillo, Yang Xu.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Towards a New Enlightenment? : A ...
Publisher: Turner
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New