Too Much Magic
Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
The author of The Long Emergency offers his predictions as to what technological advances will truly bring, in a sobering look at the future that dispels the overly optimistic vision of the future as depicted in 1950s pop culture.
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I think I would have liked this a lot better if I had read his previous title on the same subject–The Long Emergency. The author currently says things like “I already talked about this in my previous book so I won't say much here,” and yet other topics were way too in-depth. I pretty much skipped chapters 5 and 6. I also feel that Kunstler offers little in the way of suggestions or hope for the future. Though I was very interested in his analysis of architecture, as well as the chapter on the environment.
And for those who thought his two World Made by Hand fiction books were too sexist, he has a nice explanation in the penultimate chapter.
In short, I will probably stick to Kunstler's fiction. I think it does a better job of envisioning what could happen in a post-oil, post-tech America without being too doom and gloom.
