By Clive Bloom (auth.)
In 1997, thirty years after the death of 'Swinging London', Britain back the centre of the cultural universe, with a thriving arts scene, a brand new Labour govt and a tender and enterprising best minister. 'Cool Britannia' appeared to sum up the hot spirit of the Nineteen Nineties within the hip language of the Sixties. during this e-book, Bloom deals an intensive and arguable consultant to the probabilities for highbrow lifestyles, pop culture, literary creation and political authority in multi-cultural Britain in 2000 and beyond.
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Ohmae’s uncompromising stand was consistent with what became known in the 1980s as Reaganomics and Thatcherite monetarism. For advocates of this policy such deregulation by the state and its servants during the 1980s put power into the pockets of the individual, 44 Something in the Air: Culture and Politics Now who as a consumer could restate lost rights of choice, freedom of action and self-determination. Such philosophy harked back to the earlier heroic age of Adam Smith and, indeed, one vociferous voice for such policies (which also opposed closer European links) was the right-wing Adam Smith Institute.
Disregarding the more extreme advocates of technological or ecological change and discounting the unpredictable terrors of war, famine and pestilence, a number of writers have attempted a futurological study of the United Kingdom based upon patterns of industrial growth and cultural change. Arthur C. Clarke pointed out that there are two types of change. The first is a consequence of known and understandable factors; for the population of 1900 this would have included the possibilities of flight, the inevitable rise of the United States, the importance of the Labour Party, trouble in Ireland and the Empire and even a large continental war.
Arthur C. Clarke pointed out that there are two types of change. The first is a consequence of known and understandable factors; for the population of 1900 this would have included the possibilities of flight, the inevitable rise of the United States, the importance of the Labour Party, trouble in Ireland and the Empire and even a large continental war. Many technological changes could also be predicted. The second type of change requires a qualitative leap. Here prediction finds itself adrift.