Preparing for the twenty-first century /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[1993]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : old challenges and new challenges
- The demographic explosion
- The communications and financial revolution and the rise of the multinational corporation
- World agriculture and the biotechnology revolution
- Robotics, automation, and a new industrial revolution
- The dangers to our natural environment
- The future of the nation-state
- The Japanese "plan" for a post-2000 world
- India and China
- Winners and losers in the developing world
- The erstwhile USSR and its crumbled empire
- Europe and the future
- The American dilemma
- Preparing for the twenty-first century.