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The Ingenuity Gap

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The Ingenuity Gap

In "The Ingenuity Gap", Thomas Homer-Dixon, "global guru" (The Toronto Star), "genuine academic celebrity" (Saturday Night), and "one of Canada's most talked about and controversial scholars" (Maclean's) asks: Is our world becoming too complex and too fast-paced to manage? The challenges facing human societies -- ranging from international financial crises and global climate change to pandemics of tuberculosis and AIDS -- converge, intertwine, and often remain largely beyond our ken. Most of us suspect that the "experts" don't really know what's going on and that as a species we have released forces that are neither managed nor manageable. This is "the ingenuity gap" -- the term coined by Thomas Homer-Dixon, political scientist and advisor to the White House -- the critical gap between our need for practical and innovative ideas to solve complex problems and our actual supply of those ideas. Through gripping narrative stories and incidents that exemplify his arguments, he takes us on a world tour that begins with a heartstopping description of the tragic crash of United Airlines Flight 232 from Denver to Chicago and includes Las Vegas in its desert, a wilderness beach in British Columbia, and his solitary search for a little girl in Patna, India. He shows us how, in our complex world, while poor countries are particularly vulnerable to ingenuity gaps, our own rich countries are no longer immune, and we are all caught dangerously between a soaring requirement for ingenuity and an increasingly uncertain supply. When the gap widens, political disintegration and violent upheaval can result, reaching into our own economies and daily lives in subtle, unforeseen ways. In compelling andlucid prose, he makes real the problems we face suggest how we might overcome them -- in our lives, our thinking, our business, and our societies.

Title of ebook: The Ingenuity Gap
ISBN: 9780375412714
Publisher: Knopf
Internet download file size: 1143 kb
Released online for download: 01-01-2001
Author of eBook: Homer-Dixon, Thomas F.

Excerpt

CAREENING INTO THE FUTURE

At 3:16 p.m. on 19 July, 1989, the jet's tail engine blew apart. Twelve thousand meters above the U.S. Midwest, shards of the engine's fan rotor cut through the rear of the aircraft, shredding its hydraulic systems. As fluid bled from hydraulic tubing, the pilots in the front of the plane lost command of the rudder, elevators, and ailerons essential to stabilizing and guiding the craft. Immediately, the plane twisted into a downward right turn. United Airlines Flight 232 from Denver to Chicago—with 296 people aboard—was out of control.

By itself, the failure of the tail engine was not catastrophic: the dc-10 had two other engines, one under each wing. But cockpit gauges showed a complete loss of hydraulic quantity and pressure. When the first officer trie ... read full excerpt from The Ingenuity Gap ebook