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The second section illustrates how technology and innovation are embedded in human nature, and what factors define technology's brilliance or decline. Vijg compares Chinese dynasties, the Roman Empire, and the Industrial Revolution to contemporary America to understand the rise and fall of technological progress and stasis, and ultimately to ask if America will follow the same trajectory. He provides an optimistic answer that American civilization is a global one, based on a planet-wide economic empire that will persist in the absence of external threats. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers and undergraduate students, all levels.
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