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44 relations: A Short History of Progress, Agriculture, Charles Handy, Climate change, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Control Data Corporation, Creativity, Cultural lag, Desertification, Diminishing returns, Ecological resilience, Erosion, Escalation of commitment, Greenhouse gas, Historian, Human overpopulation, Icarus paradox, Intensive animal farming, Irrigation, Joseph Tainter, Larry Laudan, Lateralization of brain function, Massey Lectures, Medicine, Microcinema, Neophobia, Novelist, Peak oil, Roger Bacon, Ronald Wright, Seymour Cray, Societal collapse, Stone Age, Sumer, Surviving Progress, Sustainable development, System justification, Technocracy, Technology, The Ingenuity Gap, The Master and His Emissary, The Upside of Down (book), Weapon, Yale University Press.
A Short History of Progress
A Short History of Progress is a non-fiction book and lecture series by Ronald Wright about societal collapse.
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Charles Handy
Charles Handy CBE (born 1932) is an Irish author/philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management.
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Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which Diamond first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time." He then reviews the causes of historical and pre-historical instances of societal collapse — particularly those involving significant influences from environmental changes, the effects of climate change, hostile neighbors, trade partners, and the society's response to the foregoing four challenges— and considers the success or failure different societies have had in coping with such threats.
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Control Data Corporation
Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer firm.
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Creativity
Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed.
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Cultural lag
The term cultural lag refers to the notion that culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations, and that social problems and conflicts are caused by this lag.
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Desertification
Desertification is a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry area of land becomes increasingly arid, typically losing its bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife.
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Diminishing returns
In economics, diminishing returns is the decrease in the marginal (incremental) output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production is incrementally increased, while the amounts of all other factors of production stay constant.
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Ecological resilience
In ecology, resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and recovering quickly.
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Erosion
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).
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Escalation of commitment
Escalation of commitment is a human behavior pattern in which an individual or group facing increasingly negative outcomes from some decision, action, or investment nevertheless continues the same behavior rather than alter course.
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Greenhouse gas
A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range.
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Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.
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Human overpopulation
Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group.
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Icarus paradox
The Icarus paradox is a neologism coined by Danny Miller in his 1990 book by the same name.
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Intensive animal farming
Intensive animal farming or industrial livestock production, also known as factory farming, is a production approach towards farm animals in order to maximize production output, while minimizing production costs.
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Irrigation
Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.
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Joseph Tainter
Joseph Anthony Tainter (born December 8, 1949) is an American anthropologist and historian.
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Larry Laudan
Larry Laudan (born 1941) is a contemporary American philosopher of science and epistemologist.
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Lateralization of brain function
The lateralization of brain function is the tendency for some neural functions or cognitive processes to be specialized to one side of the brain or the other.
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Massey Lectures
The Massey Lectures are an annual five-part series of lectures on a political, cultural or philosophical topic given in Canada by a noted scholar.
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Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
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Microcinema
The term "microcinema" can have two meanings.
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Neophobia
Neophobia is the fear of anything new, especially a persistent and abnormal fear.
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Novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.
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Peak oil
Peak oil is the theorized point in time when the maximum rate of extraction of petroleum is reached, after which it is expected to enter terminal decline.
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Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon (Rogerus or Rogerius Baconus, Baconis, also Rogerus), also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor, was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism.
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Ronald Wright
Ronald Wright (born 1948, London, United Kingdom) is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction.
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Seymour Cray
Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which built many of these machines.
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Societal collapse
Societal collapse is the fall of a complex human society.
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Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.
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Sumer
SumerThe name is from Akkadian Šumeru; Sumerian en-ĝir15, approximately "land of the civilized kings" or "native land".
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Surviving Progress
Surviving Progress is a 2011 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, loosely based on A Short History of Progress, a book and a 2004 Massey Lecture series by Ronald Wright about societal collapse.
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Sustainable development
Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depend.
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System justification
System justification theory (SJT) is a theory within social psychology that system-justifying beliefs serve a psychologically palliative function.
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Technocracy
Technocracy is a proposed system of governance where decision-makers are selected on the basis of their expertise in their areas of responsibility, particularly scientific knowledge.
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Technology
Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia) is first robustly defined by Jacob Bigelow in 1829 as: "...principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emolument of those who pursue them".
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The Ingenuity Gap
The Ingenuity Gap is a non-fiction book by Canadian academic Thomas Homer-Dixon.
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The Master and His Emissary
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World is a 2009 book written by Iain McGilchrist that deals with the specialist hemispheric functioning of the brain.
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The Upside of Down (book)
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization is a non-fiction book published in 2006 by Thomas Homer-Dixon, a professor who at the time was the director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at University of Toronto.
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Weapon
A weapon, arm or armament is any device used with intent to inflict damage or harm.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_trap
