"1980-2020: Evolution of a Network Nation"
Title | "1980-2020: Evolution of a Network Nation" |
Year for Search | 1980 |
Authors | Harpham, Myra [Smillie](b. 1931) |
Secondary Title | Pictures of the Future |
Pagination | 13-21 |
Date Published | 1980 |
Publisher | Mallinson Rendel |
Place Published | Wellington, New Zealand |
Keywords | Aotearoa New Zealand author, Female author |
Annotation | Eutopia of a future New Zealand based on a service economy focusing on information and tourism. Radical decentralization with people working from home or in cooperatives and running family companies. Small towns have revived. Greater equality. Manufacturing and polluting industries in general have been moved out of New Zealand to poor Pacific Island countries, thus improving New Zealand, but, while providing jobs in the poor countries, clearly damages their environments. The book is composed of five short future scenarios for New Zealand. |
Info Notes | The book is composed of five short future scenarios for New Zealand. |
Holding Institutions | ATL, VUW |
Author Note | Aotearoa/New Zealand (b. 1931) |
Full Text | 1980 Harpham, Myra [Smillie] (b. 1931). “1980-2020: Evolution of a Network Nation.” In Pictures of the Future (Wellington, New Zealand: Mallinson Rendel, 1980), 13-21. ATL, VUW Eutopia of a future New Zealand based on a service economy focusing on information and tourism. Radical decentralization with people working from home or in cooperatives and running family companies. Small towns have revived. Greater equality. Manufacturing and polluting industries in general have been moved out of New Zealand to poor Pacific Island countries, thus improving New Zealand, but, while providing jobs in the poor countries, clearly damages their environments. The book is composed of five short future scenarios for New Zealand. Aotearoa/New Zealand female author. |