The Great Disruption
Melvyn Bragg discusses the 20th century shift from industrial to information society. What has been the cause of this shift and how will we recover the social cohesion that preceded it?
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shift that has gone on through the 20th century from our being an industrial society to what is often called ‘the information society’. Francis Fukuyama’s book, The Great Disruption talks of the third great shift in the whole history of humankind. Along with all the technological and economic changes, in the past thirty years we have seen massive social changes. What has been the cause of this shift and how will we recover the social cohesion that preceded it? With Francis Fukuyama, Hirst Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, Washington DC and author of The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order; Amos Oz, author and Professor of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva.
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- Thu 17 Jun 1999 09:02Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 4
- Thu 17 Jun 1999 21:30Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 4
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