Hidden Connections : A science for sustainable living

By:

Fritjof Capra

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London HarperCollins 2002Description: 272pISBN:

9780007453030

DDC classification:

500 CAP-H .PS

Summary: Billy was a champion soccer star, playing for Chelsea in the 1930s. But that was before war broke out... Recent scientific discoveries indicate that all of life - from the most primitive cells, up to human societies, corporations and nation-states, even the global economy - is organized along the same basic patterns and principles: those of the network.However, the new global economy differs in important aspects from the networks of life: whereas everything in a living network has a function, globalism ignores all that cannot give it an immediate profit, creating great armies of the excluded. The global financial network also relies on advanced information technologies - it is shaped by machines, and the resulting economic, social and cultural environment is not life-enhancing but life-degrading, in both a social and an ecological sense.

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Book	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	500 CAP-H .PS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DCB2131

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Billy was a champion soccer star, playing for Chelsea in the 1930s. But that was before war broke out... Recent scientific discoveries indicate that all of life - from the most primitive cells, up to human societies, corporations and nation-states, even the global economy - is organized along the same basic patterns and principles: those of the network.However, the new global economy differs in important aspects from the networks of life: whereas everything in a living network has a function, globalism ignores all that cannot give it an immediate profit, creating great armies of the excluded. The global financial network also relies on advanced information technologies - it is shaped by machines, and the resulting economic, social and cultural environment is not life-enhancing but life-degrading, in both a social and an ecological sense.

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