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Future Stories : What's Next? by David Christian (2022, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316497452
ISBN-139780316497459
eBay Product ID (ePID)15057243219
Product Key Features
Book TitleFuture Stories : What's Next?
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicNatural History, Future Studies, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, World
Publication Year2022
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Science, Psychology, History
AuthorDavid Christian
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-950394
Dewey Edition23/eng/20220527
Reviews"David Christian's approach to understanding history--by exploring multiple perspectives and disciplines--can help all of us learn how to prepare for the future that lies ahead and the big challenges facing humanity."-- Bill Gates, "A head turner. Future Stories is a clarion call for us to see the past and the future together--across multiple scales--and to act for the future of our planet."-- Marnie Hughes-Warrington, author of History as Wonder
Dewey Decimal303.49
SynopsisThe New York Times bestselling author of Origin Story turns his attention to the future of humanity -- and how we think about it -- in this ambitious, interdisciplinary book. 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 individual to the cosmological. Christian consults theologians, philosophers, scientists, statisticians, and scholars from a huge range of places and times as he 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 a hundred years and consider solutions to the biggest challenges facing us all., The New York Times bestselling author of Origin Story, who Bill Gates has "long been a fan of," turns his attention to the future of humanity -- and how we think about it -- in this ambitious book. The future is uncertain, a bit spooky, possibly dangerous, maybe wonderful. We cope with this never-ending uncertainty by telling stories about the future, future stories. How do we construct those stories? 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? This book is about future stories and future thinking, about how we prepare for the future. Think of it as a sort of User's Guide to the Future. We all need such a guide because the future is where we will spend the rest of our lives. 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 individual to the cosmological. Christian consults theologians, philosophers, scientists, statisticians, and scholars from a huge range of places and times as he 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 a hundred years and consider solutions to the biggest challenges facing us all.
LC Classification NumberCB161.C475 2022
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