false 6239409 2 Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial crisis guarantee its worsening. Environmental strategies to protect species lead to their extinction.<BR><BR> The traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different. In <i>The Age of the Unthinkable</i>, Joshua Cooper Ramo puts forth a revelatory new model for understanding our dangerously unpredictable world. Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, psychology, immunology, and the science of networks, he describes a new landscape of inherent unpredictability--and remarkable, wonderful possibility. 6422167 23 3 2009 The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It total:71|5:23|4:30|3:12|2:6|1:0| 71 283 207 32 5 0 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 12:20:22 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 17:03:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 12 06:09:27 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 18:17:54 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 06:09:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 15:25:11 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 05:25:13 -0700 2009
He's got some good data and interviews to back him up, and you have to give some respect to a man w...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 20:43:01 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 20:52:31 -0700 2009 bought only one hard cover this year, I had to read it and I am glad I did. Actually I had seen Charlie Rose interview the
author so I had an inkling about the book. Ramos stresses the
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--oh, ok. so, how exactly?

you know, like, keep an open mind. and, think different. crazy stuff happening and we have to, you know, keep up.

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Ramo's notion is that the old ways of thinking are no longer good enough, that we must be more "...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 07:30:43 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 07:32:40 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 16:43:47 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 16:44:54 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Aug 20 17:33:43 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 18:10:36 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 17:33:43 -0700 2009