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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: We are living through a modern Renaissance, but it isn’t entirely beautiful.
Chapter 3: New technologies transformed the Renaissance world, and the same transformation is occurring today.
Chapter 4: The New Renaissance has brought about the best health and wealth outcomes ever known in history.
Chapter 5: Progress can be swift, but it is never shared equally.
Chapter 6: The great advances of the Renaissance generated severe problems – and we are confronting similar ones today.
Chapter 7: Fear and uncertainty stirred by rapid change fueled radicalism in the Renaissance, just as they do in our own time.
Chapter 8: Despite their drawbacks, innovation and genius can open the path toward a brighter future.
Description
Age of Discovery (2016) looks back at the European Renaissance of 500 years ago to draw parallels with contemporary times. These blinks delve into the good and the bad while providing a deep historical context that has much to teach us about the “New Renaissance” we’re currently experiencing.
Who Should Listen
- Innovators, futurists and historians
- Civil servants of all stripes
- Students in search of a historical context that helps explain the current social and economic environment