Jean Gimpel

The End of the Future

The Waning of the High-Tech World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Represents the first calm, detailed, and rational description of the imminent end of western industrial civilization as we know it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780275952808
• ISBN-10: 0275952800
• Artikelnr.: 21768289

Autorenporträt

JEAN GIMPEL is a historian of technology and the cycles of civilization. He is the author of several works devoted to the scientific culture of the Middle Ages, including two bestselling books, The Cathedral Builders and The Mediaeval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Futures that Failed Mythinformation and the Computer Bluff
Space Brought Down to Earth Back to the Balloon Materials: Back to Basics
Live Longer--Suffer More The End of Scientific Magic The Relentless Cycle
of History