Title

The future and its enemies : the growing conflict over creativity, enterprise, and progress

Description

Looking ahead into the next century, the author predicts a conflict between advocates of bureaucracy and the status quo and advocates of competition and choice.

Identifier

783986

684827603

Creator

Postrel, Virginia I

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1998

Program air date: February 14, 1999

Publisher

Free Press

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers list major players (including Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Bill Bennett, etc.) and issues such as the V-Chip, Wal-Mart and Lamb's question: "What did you learn from the Unabomber?"Lamb underlines words from each of the chapter titles on the Contents page. Notes/Underlinings: dynamist thought, stasists, fear of change.

Subject

"Social prediction."

"Quality of life--Forecasting."

"Technological forecasting."

"Creative ability."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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