“What you can see is the convergence of major things; population increase, rapid increases in population. You have technological advances that are increasing, you have extraordinary, contextual issues like globalization and climate change, and so on. And so, what you see here is that uniquely, this converging of these trends coming together in a very, very short period of time, gives you this sense that you’re going to get rapid change into something new.”
John L. Petersen, futurist and CEO of The Arlington Institute
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler
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Isbn-13: 9780300122237
Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we all are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself. Thaler...
