The Ingenuity Gap

The Ingenuity Gap

"The Ingenuity Gap" (2000) is a nonfiction book written by Thomas Homer-Dixon, a professor at the University of Toronto who holds the George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies of its Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. The book's tagline and subject is "Can we solve the problems of the future?".

The author argues that the increasing complexity of our society and man's extensive alteration of the natural environment are fundamental changes from the past that will require increasing amounts of ingenuity to prevent serious problems from occurring. He goes on to discuss how we can provide that ingenuity or expertise.

ISBN 0-375-71328-X (496 pages)

Related Books

*The Tipping Point (book)
*The Corporation

External links

* [http://homerdixon.com/ingenuitygap/ Official Site]


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