Includes bibliographical references (pages255-269) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Geek Chic: anthropologist in a strange land -- World without limits: whats new about the new economy -- Gathering storm: mass affluence and its discontents -- Created unequal: merit and the ones left behind -- Lottery of success: who wins, who loses -- Eye of the needle: the moral critique of prosperity -- World we have last: goodbye nature, family community? -- Future that works: why techno-capitalism prevailed -- Conquest of human
nature: technology and the remaking of humanity -- Seduction: the quest for the posthuman -- Gift: the things that matter most.
