@article{1394004,
      recid = {1394004},
      author = {Kelly, Robert L.,},
      title = {The fifth beginning : what six million years of human  history can tell us about our future /},
      pages = {1 online resource (190 pages) :},
      abstract = {"In The Fifth Beginning, archeologist Robert Kelly  explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the  future of humanity. In an eminently readable style, Kelly  identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year  history of human development: the emergence of technology,  culture, agriculture, and the state. In each example, the  author examines the long-term processes that resulted in a  definitive no-turning-back change for the organization of  society. Kelly then looks ahead, giving us evidence for  what he calls a fifth beginning, one that began about AD  1500. Some might call it 'globalization,' but the author  places it in its larger context: a 5,000-year arms race,  capitalism's global reach, and the cultural effects of a  worldwide communication network. Kelly predicts the  emergent phenomena of this fifth beginning will include the  end of war as a viable way to resolve disputes, the end of  capitalism as we know it, the widespread appearance of  world citizenship, and forms of cooperation that end  nation-states' near-sacred status. It's the end of life, as  we have known it. However, this book and the author are  cautiously optimistic: it dwells not on the coming chaos,  but on humanity's great potential"--Provided by publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1394004},
}