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Free Press, October 2001
Trade Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0684868156
ISBN-13: 9780684868158
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Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION: GEEK CHIC: Anthropologist in a Strange Land
CHAPTER ONE: A WORLD WITHOUT LIMITS
What's New About the New Economy
CHAPTER TWO: THE GATHERING STORM
Mass Affluence and Its Discontents
CHAPTER THREE: CREATED UNEQUAL
Merit and the Ones Left Behind
CHAPTER FOUR: THE LOTTERY OF SUCCESS
Who Wins, Who Loses
CHAPTER FIVE: EYE OF THE NEEDLE
The Moral Critique of Prosperity
CHAPTER SIX: THE WORLD WE HAVE LOST
Goodbye Nature, Family, and Community?
CHAPTER SEVEN: A FUTURE THAT WORKS
Why Techno-Capitalism Prevailed
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE CONQUEST OF HUMAN NATURE
Technology and the Remaking of Humanity
CHAPTER NINE: THE SEDUCTION
The Quest for the Posthuman
CHAPTER TEN: THE GIFT
The Things That Matter the Most
NOTES
INDEX
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