Change in today's world is driven by new technologies in energy, transportation, and above all in information and communication. We cannot shift industrial society into the global information­communication age with the kind of values and vision that created the world of the 20th century, with its deepening problems and growing instabilities. This is the challenge before us. We need to catch up with the world we have created: we must evolve the way we perceive it, the way we value it, and the way we act in it. We need timely and effective personal, organizational and cultural creativity.

Macroshift first provides a historical perspective-a bird's-eye view-of the kind of transformations we are presently experiencing, and then reviews the major varieties of the problems one by one, yet always within the context of the overall picture. Then it provides guidelines for the kind of thinking and acting that is better adapted to the needs of our times. The book concludes with a hopeful and positive look into the future, reviewing the kind of changes that augur for a constructive response to today's challenges, and previews the kind of world we could achieve in our own best interest.