ISBN:
1895837456
,
1895837480
,
1895837480
,
189741448X
,
9781895837452
,
9781895837483
,
9781897414484
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (484 pages)
DDC:
303.4
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
;
Gesellschaft
;
Sozialgeschichte
;
Postmodernism Social aspects
;
Social history 1970-
;
Civilization, Modern 1950-
;
Information technology Social aspects
;
Abstraction Social aspects
;
Twenty-first century
Note:
Includes index. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
,
Table of contents; THE AUTHOR'S PERSPECTIVE: Welcome to Renaissance 2.0; PART I: Filtering the Background Noise: the hyperspace era begins; PART II: What's Wrong with this Picture? Fault lines in the New World Order; PART III: Life in Cyberspace; PART IV: How to survive in a multi-dimensional world; EPILOGUE: The Philosopher's Stone: How John Dee turned Britain into gold; INDEX.
,
Quantum Jump was written for individuals trying to make sense of the rapid social and political changes overtaking their lives. Clement explains how our civilization is undergoing a translation similar to the European Renaissance, the development of managed agriculture or the invention of writing. Each of these eras brought about new world-views and broadened the intellectual scope through which we perceive our world. The Renaissance was triggered by the discovery of perspective -- the means to manipulate three dimensions -- and implemented by the bill of exchange and new mathematics. Our newest
