Book description
Threatened by a global pandemic and by climate change, very many people fear we are facing an existential crisis. The Future of Humankind shows why these fears are unfounded and why we should be optimistic about our long-term future.
It evaluates current major predictions for our future in three categories:
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As a gloomy Capricorn, I’m not very optimistic about the future, and so I am always happy to read a disaster book, and at first glance, the contents list of John Hand’s tale of what awaits humanity promises to be just that.
But after only a few pages of Hand's talking about space rocks hitting the Earth, the gloomy reader will already be a bit puzzled at what seems to be Hand’s indefatigable spirit of technological optimism. On the wonderfully awful prospect of huge space rocks hitting the planet, we’re told that, thanks to NASA scientists:
“…we now know that…
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