A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century (30 page)

wealth disparities, 99–102

Wealth of Nations
(Smith), 63

weapons, 232–237

wheel, 12

women, 129

as consumers, 78–79

status of, 5–6

as transhumans, 261

wool, 64

workers, 120, 182

alienation of, 37, 57, 74, 157

competition among, 149

factory, 68

insecurity of, 152–153

work exploitation, 101–102

working class, 73, 182

working conditions, of laborers, 68–69

work life, 119–120

world government, 264, 267–269

World Trade Organization

(WTO), 268

World War I, ix, 75–76

World War II, ix–x, 80–81, 252

World Wide Web, 90

writing, 13, 15

Xerxes, 24

Xia, 15

Xi'an, 30, 32

Yellow Emperor, 15

Zhou dynasty, 22, 23

Zimmermann Telegram, 76