| Eternity: Our Next Billion Years 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Hanlon, M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230219314 ISBN-13: 9780230219311 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2008 Annotation: It has become received wisdom that our world is doomed, that we live in the End of Days. Bleak predictions by psychics and scientists alike portend extreme weather, droughts, famines and floods that will overtake humanity within the century, or sooner. If not global warming, then supervolcanoes, meteoric impacts, nuclear war, bioterrorism, or natural plagues will get us. But whatever happens, Michael Hanlon believes that humankind will go on...and on. The shape of things to come will be strange, and somewhat terrifying, but will very likely seem banal to the people who inhabit it in the future. Humankind may be thrown back to the Stone Age on hundreds of occasions and may come close to extinction. But recovery will follow--each time more rapidly than the last. The world of 10,000 years hence, let alone 100,000,000 years hence, will be strange and almost unrecognizable. But no matter how battered and re-born, it will still be "our" world, populated by "us" through eternity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Evolution - Social Science | Future Studies - Science | History |
| Dewey: 303.49 |
| LCCN: 2008036025 |
| Series: MacMillan Science |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 5.45" W x 8.17" (0.84 lbs) 302 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It has become received wisdom that our world is doomed, that we live in the End of Days. Bleak predictions by psychics and scientists alike portend extreme weather, droughts, famines and floods that will overtake humanity within the century, or sooner. If not global warming, then supervolcanoes, meteoric impacts, nuclear war, bioterrorism, or natural plagues will get us. But whatever happens, Michael Hanlon believes that humankind will go on...and on. The shape of things to come will be strange, and somewhat terrifying, but will very likely seem banal to the people who inhabit it in the future. Humankind may be thrown back to the Stone Age on hundreds of occasions and may come close to extinction. But recovery will follow--each time more rapidly than the last. The world of 10,000 years hence, let alone 100,000,000 years hence, will be strange and almost unrecognizable. But no matter how battered and re-born, it will still be our world, populated by us through eternity. |