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)

Contents

Book Chapters

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Book Chapters

'One: How Are We Changing Our Relationship to the World?'

★ Careening Into the Future

★ Our New World

★ The Big I
'Two: Do We Need More Ingenuity to Solve the Problems of the Future?'

★ Complexities

★ An Angry Beast

★ Glimpsing the Abyss

★ Unknown Unknowns
'Three: Can We Supply the Ingenuity We Need?'

★ Brains and Ingenuity

★ Ingenuity and Wealth

★ Techno-Hubris

★ White-Hot Landscapes
'Four: What Does the Ingenuity Gap Mean for Our Future?'

★ Vegas

★ Patna

Related Books

★ The Tipping Point (book)

★ The Corporation

External links

★ Official Site