This 3 page paper discusses the ideas and predictions of William Knoke in a Bold New World. Argumentative paper illustrates why Knoke's assertions are faulty. Bibliography lists 0 source.
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will include, in a time not too distant from now, a societal upheaval like none that the world has ever known. A brilliant scholar and learned person, no doubt, one
has to wonder, however, if in his predictions he is not only selling the abilities of mankind short, as well as forgetting the milestones in mankinds history.
The Age of Everything is a buzz phrase that he utilizes in his work to indicate the rapidly changing world due to the developments in
communications. A sense of boundary, of nationality, ethnicity are lost in the exchange of goods, internet services, and trade. However, one only has to look to the not so distant
past to see that this is not the first time that mankind has experienced a communications boom, nor is it the first time that technology has exceeded mankinds ability to
comprehend its ramifications and side effects. As early as the 1950s and 1960s the United States was entering into its own with
technology, exploration and communication technology. The leap from the fifties to the sixties created a societal upheaval which produced the age of the hippy, the freelove movement, and complex international
relations. The Amoeba Form, he offers is the effect of nameless, faceless companies doing business with other nameless, faceless businesses in various part of the world. This creates economic
wealth at a distance without physical human interaction. However, this has long been a practice. At what point did Mr. Knoke think that mankind would replace technology with a sense
of humanity. The Rustics (a group of writers/poets during the industrial age) saw the resultant loss of humanity and caring when machines replaced the jobs of mankind and people moved