, listed on the Huffington Post as Ariana's Book of the Month for February. A whole tome (700 pages!) on Empathy's role in history? Sounds like a complement to Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
, the textbook and touchstone for the Business of Art & Design program I'm part of in southside Va.While I might read all 700 pages (!!) of Civilization on the Kindle app for iPhone and reboot my self-challenge, I was struck while looking through more of his books by The End of Work. Check out this summary from Publisher's Weekly on Amazon:
"In this challenging report, social activist Rifkin contends that worldwide unemployment will increase as new computer-based and communications technologies eliminate tens of millions of jobs in the manufacturing, agricultural and service sectors. He traces the devastating impact of automation on blue-collar, retail and wholesale employees, with a chapter devoted to African Americans. While a small elite of corporate managers and knowledge workers reap the benefits of the high-tech global economy, the middle class continues to shrink and the workplace becomes ever more stressful..."This cheery perspective was set in print way back in 1994. I'm honestly curious to see what Rifkin predicted vis-a-vis what's come to pass. Indeed, living nowadays in southside Virginia with manufacturing and tobacco industries painfully decimated over the past decade.5, I have a vested interest in understanding what's gone down and how that can help me help more.
~benc
