书籍封面
书籍信息
- 作者：Danny Dorling
- 出版时间：2020-5
- 定价：$28.50
- 页数：384
- ISBN：9780300243406
书籍介绍
A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown—of population growth, economies,
and technological innovation
Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking
book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early
1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility
rates, growth in GDP per person, increases in life expectancy, and even the
frequency of new social movements have all steadily declined over the last
few generations.
Perhaps most surprising of all is the fact that even as new technologies frequently reshape our everyday lives and are widely believed to be propelling
our civilization into new and uncharted waters, the rate of technological progress is also rapidly dropping. Rather than lament this turn of events, Dorling
embraces it as a moment of promise and a move toward stability, and he
notes that many of the older great strides in progress that have defined recent
history also brought with them widespread warfare, divided societies, and
massive inequality
