Seizing the Future: Dawn of the Macroindustrial Era

Seizing the Future is a provocative and optimistic look at the way advances in scientific and technologial knowledge will make amazing changes possible within the next decades. Michael Zey argues that an end to social problems such as hunger and poverty and a concurrent increase in the worldwide standard of living are within our grasp. Rather than becoming an information society, as has been predicted by many trend watchers, our society will become a Macroindustrial Culture, one emphasising large scale production. Seizing the Future argues that the technology to transform our world is readily available - and we must adjust our attitudes so that we are able to embrace these changes, which will result in prosperity for all. More than a chronicle of technological transformation, this volume is an agenda for our evolving attitudes. This thought-provoking work is essential to the studies of sociologists, economists, and futures studies scholars.

Table of Contents:
One: The Promise of a Better World; 1: The Imperative of Growth; 2: Hyperprogress; 3: A Space off Our Own; 4: Breaking the Biological Constraints; 5: Fields off Plenty; Two: The Pathway to the Macroindustrial Society; 6: The Family as a Catalyst far Growth; 7: Revving Up the Knowledge Machine; 8: On the Frontiers off Human Potential; 9: Creating the Expansionary Culture We Need; 10: Seize the Future!; Epilogue to the Transaction Edition; Notes

About the Author :
Michael G. Zey is a professor of management in the School of Business Administration at Montclair State University and executive director of the Expansionary Institute in Morristown, New Jersey. He is an internationally recognized expert on the economy, society, and management.

Review :
-Seizing the Future is a brilliant and exuberant antidote to the pessimistic poison being peddled by fashionable declinists.- --Ronald Bailey, author of ECO-SCAM -[A] thoughtful argument of how the next generation will focus on massive industrialization, rather than create strictly an information-based economy.- --Teresa McUsic, Morning Star-Telegram -Marked by verve, vision, and a thorough familiarity with the field, this book buoys the spirit, challenges conventional thinking, and arms the reader as do few comparable works in futuristics. Engagingly written, and free of both jargon and pretentiousness, it sets a high standard for twenty-first-century explorations.- --Arthur B. Shostak, Drexel University "Seizing the Future is a brilliant and exuberant antidote to the pessimistic poison being peddled by fashionable declinists." --Ronald Bailey, author of ECO-SCAM "[A] thoughtful argument of how the next generation will focus on massive industrialization, rather than create strictly an information-based economy." --Teresa McUsic, Morning Star-Telegram "Marked by verve, vision, and a thorough familiarity with the field, this book buoys the spirit, challenges conventional thinking, and arms the reader as do few comparable works in futuristics. Engagingly written, and free of both jargon and pretentiousness, it sets a high standard for twenty-first-century explorations." --Arthur B. Shostak, Drexel University "Seizing the Future is a brilliant and exuberant antidote to the pessimistic poison being peddled by fashionable declinists." --Ronald Bailey, author of ECO-SCAM "[A] thoughtful argument of how the next generation will focus on massive industrialization, rather than create strictly an information-based economy." --Teresa McUsic, Morning Star-Telegram "Marked by verve, vision, and a thorough familiarity with the field, this book buoys the spirit, challenges conventional thinking, and arms the reader as do few comparable works in futuristics. Engagingly written, and free of both jargon and pretentiousness, it sets a high standard for twenty-first-century explorations." --Arthur B. Shostak, Drexel University ""Marked by verve, vision, and a thorough familiarity with the field, this book buoys the spirit, challenges conventional thinking, and arms the reader as do few comparable works in futuristics. Engagingly written, and free of both jargon and pretentiousness, it sets a high standard for 21st century explorations."" Arthur B. Shostak, "Drexel University"