Chris Kutarna – författare

'A landmark new book.' - The GuardianAge of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the benefits of progress?Now is humanity's best moment. And our most fragile. Global health, wealth and education are booming. Scientific discovery is flourishing. But the same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others-and tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable.We've been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, redrew all maps of the world, liberated information and shifted Western civilization from the medieval to the early modern era. Such change came at a price: social division, political extremism, economic shocks, pandemics and other unintended consequences of human endeavour.Now is our second Renaissance. In the face of terrorism, Brexit, refugee crises and the global impact of a Trump presidency, we can flourish-if we heed the urgent lessons of history. Age of Discovery, revised and updated for this paperback edition, shows us how.

'A landmark new book.' - The GuardianAge of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the benefits of progress?Now is humanity's best moment. And our most fragile. Global health, wealth and education are booming. Scientific discovery is flourishing. But the same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others-and tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable.We've been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, redrew all maps of the world, liberated information and shifted Western civilization from the medieval to the early modern era. Such change came at a price: social division, political extremism, economic shocks, pandemics and other unintended consequences of human endeavour.Now is our second Renaissance. In the face of terrorism, Brexit, refugee crises and the global impact of a Trump presidency, we can flourish-if we heed the urgent lessons of history. Age of Discovery, revised and updated for this paperback edition, shows us how.

CHtoby ponyat'' konflikty i potryaseniya sovremennosti, nam sleduet zaglyanut'' v proshloe i osoznat'': vse ehto uzhe bylo. Pyat''sot let nazad, vo vremena Renessansa, Leonardo, Kolumb, Kopernik, Gutenberg i mnogie drugie izmenili svoyu ehpohu i dali tolchok k rasprostraneniyu znanij i rascvetu tvorchestva. No uzhe togda chelovechestvo stolknulos'' s obratnoj storonoj progressa: social''nym neravenstvom, politicheskim ehkstremizmom, nestabil''nost''yu, razgulom ehpidemij i vse bolee krovoprolitnymi vojnami.Jen Goldin, byvshij vice-prezident Vsemirnogo banka, sovetnik prezidenta Nel''sona Mandely, i Kris Kutarna, ehkspert po voprosam mezhdunarodnoj politiki i ehkonomiki, uvereny: nasha ehpoha – Novyj Renessans, unikal''nyj moment, kogda rascvet geniya i gotovnost'' riskovat'' sposobny polnost''yu izmenit'' budushchee chelovechestva. Procvetanie zhdet nas, esli my usvoim uroki istorii i sumeem protivostoyat'' vyzovam nashego vremeni."EHpoha otkrytij" ukazyvaet put'' cherez krizisy sovremennosti i zakladyvaet osnovu dlya naslediya, kotorym mir budet gordit''sya i cherez pyat''sot let posle nas.