Joel Garreau is the author of Radical Evolution: The
Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies–and
What It Means to Be Human, published in 2005 by Doubleday.
Garreau burst onto the culture and values scene with the 1981
publication of The Nine Nations of North America, a
book that described how the continent was behaving not so much
like 50 states and three countries, but nine separate and
powerful civilizations or economies that paid scant attention to
political boundaries in the course of forging their own destiny.
Ten years later, Garreau focused on who we are through the prism
of the modern metropolis we are building in Edge City: Life
on the New Frontier. In what was termed
“groundbreaking” work by The New
York Times, Garreau pointed out that we are
building the biggest change in 150 years on how we live, work,
play, pray, shop, and die.
Garreau is a reporter and editor at The
Washington Post and principal of The Garreau
Group, the network of his best sources committed to
understanding who we are, how we got that way, and where we're
headed, worldwide. He has served as a senior fellow at the
University of California at Berkeley and George Mason University
and is a member of Global Business Network, the pioneering
scenario-planning organization. He is also the troll of a small
forest in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
selected books
Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies–and What It Means to Be Human
(Broadway; Reprint, 2006)
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