Technology is Dead

How did we end up here, masters of scientific insight, purveyors of ever more powerful technologies, astride the burning planet that created us, and now responsible for cleaning up the mess and determining the future direction of all of life? And what do we do about it?

Autorentext

Chris Colbert was the Managing Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs, where he worked with Harvard students and alumni on how to turn nascent ideas into viable businesses. Since his dysfunctional childhood growing up as the son of a four-star admiral and being raised by an English nanny and a gaggle of Filipino stewards (yes, you read that right), Chris has spent his life trying to understand humans, including himself. He learned the hard way about how to look the truth in the mirror and then do something about it. Fear was his friend, intimacy was his enemy. From there he went on to run a bunch of companies, fail at a bunch of relationships, and ultimate end up as a born- again everything, running the day to day of the Harvard Innovation Labs and writing his ass off. But that's all drivel. You should read the book.

Inhalt

Introduction

PART I: THE TECHNOLOGY TRAIN

Chapter One How Technology Changed the World

Chapter Two The Growing Gap Between Us and It

Chapter Three Decoding Humans

PART II: THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

Chapter Four The Emerging Specters of Threat

Chapter Five Deepening Divisions

Chapter Six The Shifting Sands of Power

PART III: THE HUMANIST REVOLUTION

Chapter Seven Beginning with the End in Mind

Chapter Eight Establishing a New Paradigm of Rule

Chapter Nine Re-engineering our Systems

Chapter Ten Changing the Ways of Us

Epilogue Re-writing our Narrative

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