AN Optimist’s Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer “What’s Next?”-Fast Shipping

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In the tradition of Bill Bryson’s A Short History of NearlyEverything, a smart and entertaining guide to the future.

Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-setout simply, asking, “What’s next for our species?” and then traveledthe globe in pursuit of the answers. Along the way, he visited theAustralian outback to visit the farmers who can save us from climatechange, met a robot with mood swings, and talked to the Spaniard who’sputting a hotel in space. While some might be overwhelmed, or evendismayed by the looming realities of genome sequencing, syntheticbiology, a nuclear renaissance, and carbon scrubbing, Stevensonremains, well, optimistic. Drawing on his singular humor andstorytelling to break down these sometimes complicated discoveries,An Optimist’s Tour of the Future paints a wonderfully readable,and completely enthralling portrait of where we’ll be when we grow up- and why it’s not so scary.