Gregg Easterbrook on the Next Boom
On his flight to Los Angeles, Gregg Easterbrook, author of Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed, read what he called a scary book. It predicted the imminent decline of the U.S., the takeover of our lives by technology, and major war and disaster. “Not mine,” he assured the crowd at the Hammer Museum. “I’m an optimist.” The book turned out to be not a recent bestseller, but rather The Education of Henry Adams, dating back to 1907. No matter how frightening the world seems today, Easterbrook explained, fear about the …
