Publisher's Synopsis
"Why has the most innovative of species become so dangerous? The answer, suggests Peter Russell, lies in humanity's accelerating pace of development. He shows how innovation breeds further innovation-a positive feedback loop that leads to exponentially increasing rates of change. But ever-accelerating change also creates stress on the systems involved-personal, social, and planetary. We are heading into a future with technology beyond our dreams, but in a world that is breaking at the seams. This, Russell argues is the inevitable fate of any intelligent, technologically-empowered species"--.
