End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World
Autor Bryan Walshen Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 aug 2019
End Timesis a compelling work of skilled reportage that peels back the layers of complexity around the unthinkable-and inevitable-end of humankind. From asteroids and artificial intelligence to volcanic supereruption to nuclear war, 15-year veteran science reporter andTIMEeditor Bryan Walsh provides a stunning panoramic view of the most catastrophic threats to the human race.
InEnd Times, Walsh examines threats that emerge from nature and those of our own making: asteroids, supervolcanoes, nuclear war, climate change, disease pandemics, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial intelligence. Walsh details the true probability of these world-ending catastrophes, the impact on our lives were they to happen, and the best strategies for saving ourselves, all pulled from his rigorous and deeply thoughtful reporting and research.
End Timesmay be dark, but it does not wallow in doom. Walsh goes into the room with the men and women whose job it is to imagine the unimaginable. He includes interviews with those on the front lines of prevention, actively working to head off existential threats in biotechnology labs and government hubs. Guided by Walsh's evocative, page-turning prose, we follow scientific stars like the asteroid hunters at NASA and the disease detectives on the trail of the next killer virus.
Walsh explores the danger of apocalypse in all forms. In the end, it will be the depth of our knowledge, the height of our imagination, and our sheer will to survive that will decide the future.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316449618
ISBN-10: 031644961X
Pagini: 336
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Hachette Books
ISBN-10: 031644961X
Pagini: 336
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Hachette Books
Notă biografică
A
graduate
of
Princeton
University,Bryan
Walshworked
as
a
foreign
correspondent,
reporter,
and
editor
forTIMEfor
over
15
years.
He
founded
the
award-winning
Ecocentric
blog
on
TIME.com
and
has
reported
from
more
than
20
countries
on
science
and
environmental
stories
like
SARS,
global
warming
and
extinction.
Currently
he
writes
forBloomberg,Newsweek,TIME,and
Medium,
and
consults
on
sustainability
issues
for
corporations
like
Apple.
He
lives
in
Brooklyn
with
his
wife
and
son.
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Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge examination of existential risk, the dangerous mistakes we have yet to pay for, and concrete steps we can take to protect ourselves and future-proof our civilization.
Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge examination of existential risk, the dangerous mistakes we have yet to pay for, and concrete steps we can take to protect ourselves and future-proof our civilization.