1st Edition
Defying Dystopia Going on with the Human Journey After Technology Fails Us
Contents
Prologue: Waking Up
1 Losing Balance
Technologies Tilting the Wrong Way
2 Big-Picture Thinking
How Some of Us Came to See What We Now See
3 The Numbing
When Our Devices and Distractions Become Our Pacifiers
4 The Weakening
Unnoticed Effects of Effort-Saving Technology
5 The New Trojan Horse
Why the Takeover Has Not Been Seen For What It Is
6 The Stumbling
A Slow-Footed Species in a Sprint Economy
7 The Footprint of the Future
We Are Not Cows!
8 Seeing Past Dystopia
Facing up to Malthus, Orwell, Super-Storm Sandy . . . and What?
9 Reigniting Imagination
In Search of Our Lost Abilities to Anticipate, Envision, and Plan
10 Hands, Feet, Bare Skin, and Privacy
The Last Bastions of Natural Strength
11 Overriding Evolution
A Course of High Adventure and Uncertain Salvation
12 Breaking Away
Blazing Paths to a New Human Future
13 A New Beginning
Essential Steps Toward Long-Run Survival
Appendix: Further Reading and Resources
Index
Biography
ED AYRES is the former editor of World Watch
magazine, one of the first periodicals to focus
on the emerging challenges of environmental
degradation and destabilized climate.
