THE RACE FOR THE XXI CENTURY: IN THE LOOP OF THE ROLLER COASTER, BY NICOLAU SEVCENKO

Authors

  • Jorcelyo Alencar Lima UFT

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25113/farol.v7i18.5672

Keywords:

Technological development. Globalization Technological revolutions.

Abstract

The Race to the 21st Century: In the loop of the roller coaster by author Nicolau Sevcenko (1952-2014) deals with the disturbing understanding of the 21st century passage by comparing the movements with the roller coaster. The book, organized in three chapters, addresses the structural change of the first phase that is considered quiet, where there was rise bringing order and progress in the process of technological development, and in the second phase begins a sudden fall by the new scientific theories attributed to technological revolutions. Moreover, it analyzes the historicity that underlies the triad of State, Market and Society, and the weakening of the excessive power of the State to the detriment of modern techniques.

References

Sevcenko, Nicolau (2001). A corrida para o século XXI: no loop da montanha russa. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.

Published

2020-07-28

Issue

Section

Resenhas