The Great Disruption
17 Jun, 1999
300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shift that has gone on through the 20th century from our being an industrial society to what is often called ‘the information society’. Francis Fukuyama’s book, The Great Disruption talks of the third great shift in the whole history of humankind. Along with all the technological and economic changes, in the past thirty years we have seen massive social changes. What has been the cause of this shift and how will we recover the social cohesion that preceded it?
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Guests
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Francis Fukuyama No other episodes
Hirst Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, Washington DC -
Amos Oz No other episodes
Professor of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva
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Hello I'm joined today by Francis Fukuyama and the Israeli writer Amos Oz to look at the shift that has gone on through our century from our being an industrial society to what's often called the information society.