Future Courses of Human Societies

Critical Reflections from the Natural and Social Sciences
Herausgeber: Ghimire, Kléber

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Future Courses of Human Societies explores and builds a general framework for the long-term evolution of human societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780367473600
• ISBN-10: 0367473607
• Artikelnr.: 58564346

Autorenporträt

Kléber Ghimire is Professor at the International College of Arts, Yokohama City University, Japan

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
PART ONE: METHODOLOGICAL AND ANALYTICAL CONTEXTUALIZATION
Chapter 1: Future as an Object of Inquiry: An Introduction
Kléber Ghimire
PART TWO: CONTRADICTORY ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 2: Physics, Science and Technology in the Future
Junichiro Fukai
Chapter 3: The Evolution of Future Societies with Unlimited Energy Supply?
Claudio Capiglia
Chapter 4: Nanotechnology and Future Technological Evolutions
Ruggero Micheletto
PART THREE: MEANING AND OBJECT OF PROGRESS IN THE FUTURE
Chapter 5: 3D printing: A New Industrial Revolution?
Juan Pablo Ripamonti
Chapter 6: Technology, Work and Social Conflictuality
Marc Troisvallets
Chapter 7: Economic Progress and Civilizational Changes in the Far-off
Future
Kléber Ghimire
PART FOUR: ORGANIZATION OF COLLECTIVE LIFE IN THE FUTURE
Chapter 8: On Democracy and Technology in the Long Term
Mathew Filner
Chapter 9: Ethics and Laws of the Future
Vesselin Popovski
Contributors
Index