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Age of Discovery

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Bloomsbury presents Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna read by Philip Franks

Age 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.

Critics Review

A landmark new book.
The Guardian
A bold mega-analysis of global education, health, prosperity and technology...incisive and rich in context and granularity.
Nature
An essential guide - and a superb ride - through our current stormy moment.
Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post
A powerful journey…This book will help the world.
Founder, Virgin Group
Everyone should read it.
Nobel Laureate in Economics
Ian and Chris ask—and answer—the big, essential questions…We should thank them for their audacity.
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
This fascinating book…should interest all who care about the future of humanity.
Astronomer Royal & past President of the Royal Society
A much-needed dose of perspective in our increasingly short-term-focused world.
Global Managing Director, McKinsey & Co
Essential reading to navigate the waves of innovation we face today.
13th World Chess Champion
A call to action we all need to hear.
International Executive Director, Greenpeace
An education and a great read in one.
Philosopher
Outstanding insights for all those interested in the stresses of the modern world and how other ages have confronted them.
President, NYU & past Vice-Chancellor, Oxford University
A very important reminder to grasp the opportunities in the many challenges we are facing today.
Chairman, Boston Consulting Group
A refreshing change from the shallow analyses and sterile nostrums of the right and the left…an impressive and important book.
Nobel Laureate in Economics
A hugely stimulating book…Everyone should heed the authors’ call.
Professor of History, Harvard University
A must-read for present and future leaders everywhere.
President, Commonwealth of Learning
A remarkable feat of both history and prophecy. Ian and Chris have given us a gift of self-reflection that is indeed rare. I can’t believe the book is so light and small for accomplishing such a heavy lift.
President, Skoll Global Threats Fund & past Executive Director, Google.org
A masterpiece.
New York Times best-selling author
A rich portrait…powerful parallels…essential insights for all of us—including for every emerging Michelangelo and da Vinci.
Founder & Chairman, LinkedIn
‘[A] lively account of both Renaissance and modern history...Maybe someone should send Mr. Trump a copy of this book; it might yield some thought-­provoking tweets.
Financial Times
If you read only one thing...
Politico
Far-sighted...Age of Discovery succeeds in convincing that this is an uncommonly interesting time to be alive, with unusual levels of promise—and peril.
Times Higher Education Supplement
A highly stimulating, indeed challenging book.
Forbes
Enlightening.
The Sunday Telegraph
Age of Discovery will leave its readers drained by the scale of the problems we face…but its scope and authority reward the effort.
Daily Telegraph
Breathless.
New Statesman
Urgent reading everywhere.
Shanghai Review of Books
This book completely blows my mind.
‘Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang’ on Sirius/XM
Wow.
ABC Afternoons with James Valentine
Audacious.
Salon.com
Charts the birth of a brave new world…Impressive.
Morning Star
A rallying cry for an aspirational future.
CBC News
A fantastic new book.
Breitbart.com
Edifying and thoroughly entertaining.
Inside Higher Ed
A brilliant, “big-think” read of serious scholarship and keen observation of our present moment. It is a prescient warning, a call to action to the better angels of our nature, and a map for a new age of discovery.
800-CEO-READ
The best book I’ve read in the past five years.
33Voices.com
Important. Powerful.
FutureSquared
An immense contribution to rethinking our epoch.
Cambridge Business Review
Author Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna
Narrator Philip Franks
Duration 11 hours and 52 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781399431330
Format Audiobook
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre Behavioural economics, Business and Management, Development economics and emerging economies, European history: Renaissance, Globalization, History of ideas, International economics, Political economy, Popular economics, Social and cultural history, Society and culture: general
Availability AU, GB, IE

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