FOREWORD

We are living through twin revolutions.

Over the past 15 years, we have been privileged to witness how much our lives can be changed by technology. But as the pace of change increased, we began to worry and to wonder: What was happening to humans in the midst of all this change? Where would humans fit into the future?

Simultaneous to the technological revolution was the birth and rise of positive psychology. The more we learn from advances in positive research, the more we are realizing that humanity is also on the brink of its own revolution, based in part on that technology. We have reached a point where society can no longer be enamored with mere productivity as it was throughout the twentieth century. In the past, more hours plus ...

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