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A Short History of the Future: Surviving the 2030 Spike
by Colin Mason

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* This is a revised edition of Colin Mason's "The 2030 Spike", that received the following acclaim:* "A bold, thought-provoking and ultimately rewarding [read], well-researched, full of ideas and thus a good, all-round primer on the stateof the planet." --...(more)
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Mon Aug 21 08:46:16 UTC 2006
Source: A Short History of the Future: Surviving the 2030 Spike, Page: 269
Contributed by: Michael Grove.
Colin Mason said

The facts and arguments in this book are intended to signpost new directions of thought and action for a better rather than a worse future - but are the goals they point to achieveable ?  Certainly they will involve change,  and pretty radical change at that,  and as past experience shows,  it will not happen without strict observance of the axioms.

Mon Aug 07 14:05:05 UTC 2006
Source: A Short History of the Future: Surviving the 2030 Spike, Page: solutions, human nature
Contributed by: Michael Grove.
Colin Mason said

Axiom 1

Useful change is likely to come only if it can provide as, equal, obvious and general a benefit as possible

Axiom 2

If proposed solutions don't take the lowest common denominators of human nature reallistically into account, they will not work

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