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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| Introduction / Geek Chic: Anthropolotgist in a Strange Land |
xi
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| A World without Limits: What’s New About the New Economy |
1
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| The Gathering Storm: Mass Affluence and Its Discontents |
28
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| Created Unequal: Merit and the Ones Left Behind |
62
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| The Lottery of Success: Who Wins, Who Loses |
84
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| Eye of the Needle: The Moral Critique of Prosperity |
110
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| The World We Have Lost: Goodbye Nature, Family, and Community? |
135
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| A Future That Works: Why Techno-Capitalism Prevailed |
161
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| The Conquest of Human Nature: Technology and the Remaking of Humanity |
188
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| The Seduction: The Quest for the Posthuman |
208
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| The Gift: The Things That Matter Most |
229
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| Notes |
255
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| Index |
270
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