Future Stories
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'David Christian's approach to understanding history can help all
of us learn to prepare for the future' - Bill GatesA user's guide
to the future: 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... 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 by telling stories about what will
happen next. Where is the future, the place where we set those
stories? Can we trust our future stories? And what sort of futures
do they show us?David Christian, historian and bestselling 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, history and philosophy 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.
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Penguin ,
David Christian
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Penguin,
David Christian
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Slovart
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