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Alien Contact and Diplomacy - Get it Right or We Suffer (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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Alien Contact and Diplomacy - Get it Right or We Suffer (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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Loot Price R556
Discovery Miles 5 560
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Ever wondered what to do when E.T. phones and asks awkward
questions? Ever de-constructed the motives of a visiting UFO that
is thousands of light years from home? To understand how Aliens
sees us, we first have to understand our own history of
exploration, contact and diplomacy, between Old World civilisations
and the New World tribes. Earth history is littered with cruel
jokes on unwitting peoples, where the collision of East meets West
ended with one party screwed over, or just wiped out of existence.
Why should Earth's destiny among other races of the universe be any
different? Fortunately we have history to advise us on the
implications of mixing with advanced alien cultures, yet what if
Aliens of questionable intent rocked up into Earth's lower orbit in
fancy Star Cruisers and rather than answer the calls from world
leaders, communicated only through our social networks? Technology
has shifted the means by which alien contact and diplomacy will
integrate with our digital world. The responsibility for contact
has moved from military elites and those in the know, to the wider,
connected public. We have to be prepared to face our past in order
to face the future: Soon, now, or a day in the far future, we will
make real alien contact and our diplomacy will either have us
subjugated and naively enslaved, or equipped with knowledge and
technology that enables us to explore the stars. We are responsible
for our past and the future - alien contact and diplomacy is in our
hands and our descendants' hands, so that one day they'll explore
new worlds, and know how to drive a bargain, make a deal and
survive, when they get there.
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