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- 2010044230 contributor B11789662.
- 2010044230 created "c2011.".
- 2010044230 date "2011".
- 2010044230 date "c2011.".
- 2010044230 dateCopyrighted "c2011.".
- 2010044230 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- 2010044230 description "The fact of human progress -- The idea of progress -- Parables of progress : groundhog day & Xmas carol -- Forward vs. backward function : who are we? where did we come from? -- Measuring progress in human terms -- Life, liberty, & happiness; levels & types of happiness & unhappiness -- Calculating value : net H-u : summing value across lives -- The case for progress -- Population explosion and what it means : knowledge-know-how explosion -- Positive mega trends : some negative trends -- The six forces -- Animal learning -- Stimulus-response; language acquisition; evolutionary guessing; -- Learning errors; learning dies with the learner -- Externalizing learning -- How it works; tools: using and making; behavior modeling -- Ancient devices: poems, pictures; writing: the significance of the invention -- Destruction of stored knowledge -- Social connections -- Networking; cooperative problem-solving; leadership, power, and labor division -- Knowledge platforms -- How knowledge platforms come into being; holy texts; tolerance and dualism -- Know-how platforms; working across platforms -- Scientific problem solving -- Naming, connecting, quantifying; causal thinking; P-S cycle synthesis -- The research project; know-how development process: evolution of R&D -- Modern global diffusion -- Accept, adopt, utilization; diffusion research; multi-step diffusion -- Inter-group diffusion; diffusion in the 21st century -- Where forces are taking us -- Emergence ethical humanity -- Paradigm for moral advancement; strange roots of morality; killing prehistoric norm -- Proactive morality; warfare; liberty-democracy; morality & self-interest -- Competing platforms; chronology of ethical progress; relevance of applied social science chapter eleven: fears for the future -- Death & suffering; disparities: intra-societal, global; tribal thinking -- Misuse of technology; ignorance of science & sci. method; pessimism -- Pop, energy, natural resource depletion; climate change -- What will the future bring? -- 21st century progress in particular areas.".
- 2010044230 extent "363 p. :".
- 2010044230 identifier "9781616142124 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- 2010044230 issued "2011".
- 2010044230 issued "c2011.".
- 2010044230 language "eng".
- 2010044230 publisher "Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books,".
- 2010044230 subject "303.44 22".
- 2010044230 subject "HM891 .H38 2011".
- 2010044230 subject "Progress.".
- 2010044230 subject "Social change.".
- 2010044230 subject "Technological innovations Economic aspects.".
- 2010044230 subject "Technological innovations Social aspects.".
- 2010044230 tableOfContents "The fact of human progress -- The idea of progress -- Parables of progress : groundhog day & Xmas carol -- Forward vs. backward function : who are we? where did we come from? -- Measuring progress in human terms -- Life, liberty, & happiness; levels & types of happiness & unhappiness -- Calculating value : net H-u : summing value across lives -- The case for progress -- Population explosion and what it means : knowledge-know-how explosion -- Positive mega trends : some negative trends -- The six forces -- Animal learning -- Stimulus-response; language acquisition; evolutionary guessing; -- Learning errors; learning dies with the learner -- Externalizing learning -- How it works; tools: using and making; behavior modeling -- Ancient devices: poems, pictures; writing: the significance of the invention -- Destruction of stored knowledge -- Social connections -- Networking; cooperative problem-solving; leadership, power, and labor division -- Knowledge platforms -- How knowledge platforms come into being; holy texts; tolerance and dualism -- Know-how platforms; working across platforms -- Scientific problem solving -- Naming, connecting, quantifying; causal thinking; P-S cycle synthesis -- The research project; know-how development process: evolution of R&D -- Modern global diffusion -- Accept, adopt, utilization; diffusion research; multi-step diffusion -- Inter-group diffusion; diffusion in the 21st century -- Where forces are taking us -- Emergence ethical humanity -- Paradigm for moral advancement; strange roots of morality; killing prehistoric norm -- Proactive morality; warfare; liberty-democracy; morality & self-interest -- Competing platforms; chronology of ethical progress; relevance of applied social science chapter eleven: fears for the future -- Death & suffering; disparities: intra-societal, global; tribal thinking -- Misuse of technology; ignorance of science & sci. method; pessimism -- Pop, energy, natural resource depletion; climate change -- What will the future bring? -- 21st century progress in particular areas.".
- 2010044230 title "Acceleration : the forces driving human progress / by Ronald G. Havelock.".
- 2010044230 type "text".