Eternity: Our Next Billion Years

by M. Hanlon

Overview

It has become received wisdom that our world is doomed. Mike Hanlon believes that not only is humankind not doomed, but that we may be around for millions, if not hundreds of millions of years. Humans will survive. Our future is in many ways bizarre, surreal and sometimes depressing - but it will still be our world, populated by us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230219311
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/08/2008
Series:	Macmillan Science
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

MICHAEL HANLON is one of Britain's most successful science writers. He has been Science Editor at the Daily Mail for many years; prior to this he was at the Daily Express, the Independent and Irish News. He contributes regularly to magazines such as the Spectator, New Scientist Standpoint and appears on TV and radio as a science pundit. He has headlined several science festivals and written four critically acclaimed popular science books before this one: Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet) (Macmillan 2007), The Science Of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Macmillan, 2005), The Real Mars (Constable, 2004) and The Worlds of Galileo (Constable, 2001)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Dedication - PART I - Temporal Parochialism - Two Worlds - Apocalypse Postponed - Futures I will not See - The New World Order - Machines and Bodies - Minds - Wedding Belles - PART II - We are the Masters Now - The Singularity - Postponed - Eclipse - Lingua Franca - The Planet of the Apes - Take us to your Leader - Eight Surprising Discoveries - Talking to the Future - PART III - Lost Ark Found - Something Wicked this Way Comes - One Million AD - One Last Perfect Day - Eternal Earth - The Dance of the Continents - The Dream