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'David Christian's approach to understanding history can help all
of us learn to prepare for the future' - Bill Gates A 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. 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
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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