Time to Get Real

Abstract

The article acknowledges some of the strengths of the NIC report such as its use of scenarios. It also critiques it on grounds that include failing to learn from feedback on the 2005 report, over-optimism on several fronts—especially IT, giving less weight than required to issues like global warming, overlooking the profound implications of the U.S.-led “trajectory of development,” and, in particular, its failure to recognize global limits. The report demonstrates a typical American preoccupation with technology and empirical surfaces