Not another book about the future!
Channel: Risk Bites
Date: 21/10/2020

Does humanity have a future? And if it does, what can we do to ensure it's a future that's full of promise?  In his new book "Future Rising: A Journey from the Past to the Edge of Tomorrow" scientist and author Andrew Maynard explores the future of humanity as he takes you on a remarkable journey from the Big Bang to our collective responsibility to future generations. 

Weaving together ideas and insights from science, philosophy, art, and more, "Future Rising" traces a pathway from the emergence of intelligent life, through what makes us uniquely capable of imagining and creating different futures, to the profound challenges and opportunities that come with this. 

Through sixty short reflections, the book reveals a compelling vision of the future of humankind and how this impacts our lives now. Beguiling, serendipitous, often-startling, and ultimately life-affirming, Future Rising is a short guide to the future that will change how you think about it and your relationship with it. 

If you enjoyed Noah Yuval Harari's Homo Deus, Michio Kaku's The Future of Humanity, or Lord Martin Reese's On the Future, you'll be sure to enjoy Future Rising.        

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT FUTURE RISING at http://futurerisingbook.com

Available at Amazon, Barnes and Nobel, and everywhere books are sold

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Future-Rising-Journey-Past-Tomorrow/dp/1642502634/
Barnes and Nobel: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/future-rising-andrew-maynard/1134089845

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Risk Bites videos are devised, created and produced by Andrew Maynard, in association with the Arizona State University School for the Future of Innovation in Society (http://sfis.asu.edu). They are produced under a Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA

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Professor Andrew Maynard is a scientist, author, and leading expert on risk and the ethical and socially responsible development and use of new technologies. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, serves as co-chair of the Institute for the Advancement of Nutrition and Food Science (IAFNS) Board of Trustees, is a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research President’s Research Council, has served on a number of National Academies of Sciences committees, and has testified before congressional committees on several occasions.

As well as producing Risk Bites, Andrew’s work has appeared in publications ranging from The Washington Post and Scientific American, to Slate, Salon, and OneZero. He co-hosts the podcasts Mission: Interplanetary and Future Rising, and is the author of the books Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies, and Future Rising: A Journey from the Past to the Edge of Tomorrow.    

Andrew received his PhD in aerosol dynamics from the University of Cambridge in 1993, and is currently a professor in the Arizona State University School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and an Associate Dean in the ASU College of Global Futures.

More at http://andrewmaynard.net