The Coming of New Industrial Society
Reloaded
The book explores the effect of modern technological shifts on human society, showing that technologies are undergoing accelerating qualitative changes that open up new opportunities for personal development and satisfaction of wants and, simultaneously, engender risks associated with growing opportunities of human interference with nature and technogenic stress on the environment. Based on the study of cutting-edge technologies and resulting socioeconomic shifts, Bodrunov’s analysis outlines the shape of the civilizational crisis we face. It can only be overcome by founding a new industrial society of the second generation (if we consider the new industrial state described by J. K. Galbraith as the first generation) reliant on knowledge intensive material production and the gradual removal of humans from immediate material production.
Sergey Bodrunov, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Author of more than 1000 scientific works, including more than 35 monographs. President of the Free Economic Society of Russia, President of the International Union of Economists, Director of the S. Y. Witte Institute for New Industrial Development. Author of the New Industrial Society of the Second Generation (NIS.2) concept and the theory of Noonomy. Dr. Bodrunov’s book Noonomy was granted “The Distinguished Achievement Award in Political Economy for the 21 Century” by the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE).
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