Jump Time: Shaping Your Future In A World of Radical Change - Hardcover

Houston, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585420328 ISBN 13: 9781585420322

Publisher: Tarcher, 2000

Synopsis

Citing elements that have been building during the generation before the year 2000, an anthropological study predicts the emergence of a different kind of human being, shaped by new technologies and previously dormant capabilities. 12,500 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean Houston, Ph.D., is the bestselling author of many books, including The Possible Human, The Search for the Beloved, and A Passion for the Possible. An internationally renowned scholar, philosopher, and teacher, Dr. Houston is the codirector of the Foundation for Mind Research in Pomona, New York, and a consultant to UNICEF and other international agencies.

From Library Journal:

Houston, a leader in the human potential movement and author of the best sellers A Mythic Life and A Passion for the Possible, believes that humans are entering a critical stage of rapid change. (The human potential movement says that people only use a small percentage of their positive potential, which can be unlocked by different means, e.g., role playing.) The world, she asserts, is shifting from an ethnocentric view to a global one thanks to the Internet, which is decentralizing information and reforming new cultural neighborhoods. Houston points to the Renaissance, another period of rapid change, and poignantly points to Shakespeare and da Vinci as two people who were "myriad-minded"Da quality that children need to develop today. Also attractive are the whimsical chapter titles ("Wok and Roll in the Rainbow World" and "Psychenauts in Cyberspace"). The best of Houston's work so far, this will become another best seller and is recommended for academic and public libraries.DLisa Wise, Broome Cty. P.L., Binghamton, NY
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About this edition

• Publisher: Tarcher
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1585420328
• ISBN 13: 9781585420322
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 291