Future stories : a user's guide to the future
Christian, David, 1946-2022
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Every second of our lives - whether we're looking both ways before crossing the street, celebrating the birth of a baby, or moving to a new city - we must cope with an unknowable future. How do we do this? And how do we, like most living organisms, manage this impossible challenge quite well... at least most of the time? David Christian, historian and author of Origin Story, is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. But with Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future, and a guide to what we think we know about it at all scales, from the predictive mechanisms of single-celled organisms and tomato plants to the merging of colossal galaxies billions of years from now. Drawing together science and history, philosophy and theology from a huge range of places and times, Christian explores how we prepare for uncertain futures, including the future of human evolution, artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, and more. By linking the study of the past much more closely to the study of the future, we can begin to imagine what the world will look like in the next hundred years and consider solutions to the biggest challenges facing us all.
Main title:
Future stories : a user's guide to the future / David Christian.
Author:
Christian, David, 1946-, author
Imprint:
London : Bantam Press, 2022.©2022
Collation:
viii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"From the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the fate of the galaxy, and the last black hole" -- Cover.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
97817876364779781787636477
Dewey class:
500
Language:
English
BRN:
519373
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Science and Technology | 500 CHR | Onloan - Due: 28 Sep 2024 |