Howard Bloom
1) Reinventing Capitalism/In Praise of Consumerism: The Spiritual Fruits of Material Things/ Why Capitalism Lifts The Poor and The Oppressed--And Why Capitalism Does It Best
Capitalism creates "material miracles". And prophetic capitalism generates profits. In this rollicking defense, Bloom weaves science, history and economics together to show you how nature herself drives speculation and gaudy display. And he shows you how that display pays off. . Capitalism has dramatically reduced mass starvation. Capitalism has added five extra hours of light to the average human day. And capitalism has added the equivalent an extra lifetime to your life expectancy and mine. But that's just a preview of what will come. Bloom shows you how capitalists at their best are not merciless exploiters of the poor, they are secular saints.
2) Energy from Space - Hurdling the energy crisis and the carbon catastrophe
--America has suffered from a non-stop energy crisis since the first Arab Oil Embargo of 1973. But we have a crack at becoming a net energy and technology exporter. Not to mention a massive net job creator. How? The answer is eight minutes above your head. Harvest solar power in space and transmit it to earth via radio waves. Something we've been doing since 1962 when the first commercial satellite went up and transmitted the energy it captured with its primitive photovoltaic panels to receiving stations on earth. Something we do every time you tap into satellite TV. The sun's energy in space is seven times as powerful as solar energy captured at the earth's surface. Its output is 24/7. What's more, harvesting energy in space can lay the cornerstone for something that will make America a world leader well into the middle and late 21st century: a booming new economy, an economy based on a vast new resource base: the resource base of space.
3) The Future of Technology - Key to Mankind's Progress-
Some say our technology is dehumanizing us and dumbing us down. Bloom says the opposite. Technology is giving us radically new powers every fifteen years, powers that evolution would have taken 300 million years to evolve--new long distance eyes, ears, and legs. New wings, wheels, height, and speed. New ways of gobbling information and of interacting with our fellow human beings. If you think iPads and smart phones are terrific, wait until you hear what's
to come.
4) The God Problem - How a Godless Universe Creates
About Howard Bloom:
Howard Bloom has been called "the Darwin, Einstein, Newton, and Freud of the 21st Century" by Britain's Channel4 TV and "the next Stephen Hawking" by Gear Magazine. Christopher Boehm, the director of the Jane Goodall Research Institute says, "Howard Bloom should be taking notes on what he's doing every minute of the day. He is single-handedly creating a scientific revolution."
Bloom calls his field "mass behavior" and explains that his area of study includes everything from the mass behavior of quarks to the mass behavior of human beings. He is the founder of three international scientific groups: The Group Selection Squad, The International Paleopsychology Project, and The Space Development Steering Committee.
Bloom speaks on the future of capitalism, technology and space energy development.
He is the author of five books: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century, How I Accidentally Started The Sixties, The Genius of the Beast: A Radical re-Vision of Capitalism and his newest, The God Problem.
In 1968 Bloom turned down four graduate fellowships and embarked on what he calls his Voyage of the Beagle, an expedition to the dark underbelly where new myths, new historical movements, and new shifts in mass emotion are made.
The result: he generated $28 billion in revenues (more than the gross domestic product of Oman or Luxembourg) for companies like Sony, Disney, Pepsi Cola, Coca Cola, and Warner Brothers. He accomplished this by taking profits out of the picture and focusing on doing good. He applied the same principle to star-making, helping build the careers of figures like Prince, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Billy Idol, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, John Mellencamp, Queen, Kiss, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Run DMC, and roughly 100 others.
Howard Bloom has taken an unusual approach to the study of mass moods and cultural convolutions. He was adept at spotting new subcultures, entering them, and helping their members achieve their goals...a skill which gave him an inside role in the rise of rap, disco, and punk rock. "More important is the impact of a communal ritual like a rock concert. The star onstage is taken over by a self he doesn't know, one that seems to surge through him as if he were a length of empty pipe. The force of this strange passion welds the audience in an almost transcendent bond." Bloom's task was to first experience the exaltation, then to dissect it.
Bloom also plunged into social causes. He helped Launch Farm Aid and Amnesty International in the United States, put together the first public-service radio advertising campaign for solar energy, and founded the leading national music anti-censorship movement in the United States.
1) Reinventing Capitalism/In Praise of Consumerism: The Spiritual Fruits of Material Things/ Why Capitalism Lifts The Poor and The Oppressed--And Why Capitalism Does It Best
Capitalism creates "material miracles". And prophetic capitalism generates profits. In this rollicking defense, Bloom weaves science, history and economics together to show you how nature herself drives speculation and gaudy display. And he shows you how that display pays off. . Capitalism has dramatically reduced mass starvation. Capitalism has added five extra hours of light to the average human day. And capitalism has added the equivalent an extra lifetime to your life expectancy and mine. But that's just a preview of what will come. Bloom shows you how capitalists at their best are not merciless exploiters of the poor, they are secular saints.
2) Energy from Space - Hurdling the energy crisis and the carbon catastrophe
--America has suffered from a non-stop energy crisis since the first Arab Oil Embargo of 1973. But we have a crack at becoming a net energy and technology exporter. Not to mention a massive net job creator. How? The answer is eight minutes above your head. Harvest solar power in space and transmit it to earth via radio waves. Something we've been doing since 1962 when the first commercial satellite went up and transmitted the energy it captured with its primitive photovoltaic panels to receiving stations on earth. Something we do every time you tap into satellite TV. The sun's energy in space is seven times as powerful as solar energy captured at the earth's surface. Its output is 24/7. What's more, harvesting energy in space can lay the cornerstone for something that will make America a world leader well into the middle and late 21st century: a booming new economy, an economy based on a vast new resource base: the resource base of space.
3) The Future of Technology - Key to Mankind's Progress-
Some say our technology is dehumanizing us and dumbing us down. Bloom says the opposite. Technology is giving us radically new powers every fifteen years, powers that evolution would have taken 300 million years to evolve--new long distance eyes, ears, and legs. New wings, wheels, height, and speed. New ways of gobbling information and of interacting with our fellow human beings. If you think iPads and smart phones are terrific, wait until you hear what's
to come.
4) The God Problem - How a Godless Universe Creates
About Howard Bloom:
Howard Bloom has been called "the Darwin, Einstein, Newton, and Freud of the 21st Century" by Britain's Channel4 TV and "the next Stephen Hawking" by Gear Magazine. Christopher Boehm, the director of the Jane Goodall Research Institute says, "Howard Bloom should be taking notes on what he's doing every minute of the day. He is single-handedly creating a scientific revolution."
Bloom calls his field "mass behavior" and explains that his area of study includes everything from the mass behavior of quarks to the mass behavior of human beings. He is the founder of three international scientific groups: The Group Selection Squad, The International Paleopsychology Project, and The Space Development Steering Committee.
Bloom speaks on the future of capitalism, technology and space energy development.
He is the author of five books: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century, How I Accidentally Started The Sixties, The Genius of the Beast: A Radical re-Vision of Capitalism and his newest, The God Problem.
In 1968 Bloom turned down four graduate fellowships and embarked on what he calls his Voyage of the Beagle, an expedition to the dark underbelly where new myths, new historical movements, and new shifts in mass emotion are made.
The result: he generated $28 billion in revenues (more than the gross domestic product of Oman or Luxembourg) for companies like Sony, Disney, Pepsi Cola, Coca Cola, and Warner Brothers. He accomplished this by taking profits out of the picture and focusing on doing good. He applied the same principle to star-making, helping build the careers of figures like Prince, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Billy Idol, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, John Mellencamp, Queen, Kiss, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Run DMC, and roughly 100 others.
Howard Bloom has taken an unusual approach to the study of mass moods and cultural convolutions. He was adept at spotting new subcultures, entering them, and helping their members achieve their goals...a skill which gave him an inside role in the rise of rap, disco, and punk rock. "More important is the impact of a communal ritual like a rock concert. The star onstage is taken over by a self he doesn't know, one that seems to surge through him as if he were a length of empty pipe. The force of this strange passion welds the audience in an almost transcendent bond." Bloom's task was to first experience the exaltation, then to dissect it.
Bloom also plunged into social causes. He helped Launch Farm Aid and Amnesty International in the United States, put together the first public-service radio advertising campaign for solar energy, and founded the leading national music anti-censorship movement in the United States.
The God Problem - How a Godless Cosmos Creates
God's war crimes, Aristotle's sneaky tricks, Galileos creationism, Newton's intelligent design, entropys errors, Einstein's pajamas, John Conway's game of loneliness, Information Theory's blind spot, Stephen Wolfram's New Kind Of Science, and six monkeys at six typewriters getting it wrong. What do these have to do with the birth of a universe and with your need for meaning? Everything, as you're about to see.
