Eternity : our next billion years / Michael Hanlon.
Eternity : our next billion years / Michael Hanlon.
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London : Macmillan ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Date
2009.
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N303.49/51
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English
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ix, 300 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents
Contents: 1. Temporal parochialism -- 2. Two worlds -- 3. Apocalypse postponed -- 4. Futures i will not see -- 5. The new world order -- 6. Machines and bodies -- 7. Minds -- 8. Wedding belles -- 9. We are the masters now -- 10. The singularity postponed? -- 11. Eclipse -- 12. Lingua franca -- 13. P...
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London : Macmillan ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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England
Date Published
2009.
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Summary: "Received wisdom says that our world is doomed, that we live in the End of Days. Our greed and profligacy will be the end of us, and of our planet, in very short order indeed. If not global warming, then supervolcanoes, meteoric impacts, nuclear war, bioterrorism or some natural plague will spell Armageddon." "In fact, there is a strong ar...
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Eternity : our next billion years / Michael Hanlon.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N303.49/51
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74VM0pOaaPDO
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9780230219311 (hbk.)
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303.49
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991001635659702626
