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"Our choice... is to prepare for the gift and the problems it will bring. We can choose to get better at anticipating these inevitable surges. We can choose to educate ourselves and our children to become intelligently literate and wise in their employment. And we can choose to modify our legal and political and economic assumptions to meet the ordained trajectories ahead. But we cannot escape from them."

Civ V meets this book. Wow! Fascinating, but I'm too lazy to explain here.

This book is interesting as a thesis, but built so much on a certain self-evident view of history that (for me) it can be a trudge of "Yeah, we know this already. "