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100 1 $aHanlon, Michael,$d1964-
245 10 $aEternity :$bour next billion years /$cMichael Hanlon.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bMacmillan ;$aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2009.
300 $ax, 300 p. ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAcknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1: Temporal parochialism -- 2: Two worlds -- 3: Apocalypse postponed -- 4: Futures I will not see -- 5: New world order -- 6: Machines and bodies -- 7: Minds -- 8: Wedding belles -- Part 2 -- 9: We are the masters now -- 10: Singularity postponed? -- 11: Eclipse -- 12: Lingua franca -- 13: Planet of the apes -- 14: Take us to your leader -- 15: Eight surprising discoveries -- 16: Talking to the future -- Part 3 -- 17: Lost ark found -- 18: AD one million -- 19: Something wicked -- 20: One last perfect day -- 21: Eternal earth-the dance of the continents -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 $aSynopsis: 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.
650 0 $aForecasting.
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