“Today we’re seeing a new compression of time and space. We’re connecting the central nervous system of the human race for the first time in history. The personal computer revolution, the world wide web, the internet, wireless, satellite, Wi-Fi. We’re now in an era where we can actually connect the central nervous system of each individual to every other individual on the planet.We have to step back and look at the enormity of this change in time and space.”
Jeremy Rifkin, economist, writer and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends
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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (Vintage)
by Walter Russell Mead
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Isbn-13: 9780375713736
A stunningly insightful account of the global political and economic system, sustained first by Britain and now by America, that has created the modern world. The key to the two countries' predominance, Mead argues, lies in the individualistic ideology inherent in the Anglo-American religion. Over the years Britain and America's liberal democratic system has been repeatedly challeged—by Catholic Spain and Louis XIV, the Nazis, communists, and Al Qaeda—and for the most part, it has prevailed....
