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WRFY "Age Of Discovery"
Fri Mar 16, 07:30 - Fri Mar 16, 08:30
USB Executive Development, 165 West Street, Sandton
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About the bookDa Vinci, Columbus, Copernicus, Luther, Gutenberg. These names recall an era in which an unprecedented rush of discovery and disruption broke through long-standing barriers and broke down equally long-standing powers. This rush entangled the whole world politically, economically and intellectually, and reshaped society. Now, the same forces that converged 500 years ago to spark genius and upend social order—great leaps in science, trade, migration, technology, education and health—are once again present, only stronger and more widespread.
In Age of Discovery, Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna show how we can draw courage and wisdom from the last Renaissance in order to fashion our own golden age out of this New Renaissance. Whether we’re seized by Gutenberg or Zuckerberg; the discovery of the Americas or the rise of China; copperplate or silicon etching; the Bonfire of the Vanities or the rise of ISIS; the spread of syphilis or the Ebola pandemic—a Renaissance moment, then and now, forces humanity to give its best just when the stakes are highest. Age of Discovery navigates the crises of our time and helps us all define a legacy that the world will still celebrate half a millennium from now.
Professor André Roux will unpack the essence of the book.
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WRFY "Age Of Discovery"
USB Executive Development, 165 West Street, Sandton
Carl Cronje Dr, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, 7530, South Africa
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