Year million
Subtitle: science at the far edge of knowledge
By: edited by Damien Broderick.
Contributors: Broderick, Damien.
Publisher: Atlas & Co.; Distributed to the trade by W.W. Norton
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; [S.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780977743346; 9781934633052
Subjects: Forecasting.; Science -- Forecasting.; Social change.; Civilization, Modern.; Longevity.; Life on other planets.; Outer space.
Other titles: Science at the far edge of knowledge
Description: In fourteen original essays, leading scientists and science writers cast their minds forward to 1,000,000 C.E., exploring an almost inconceivably distant future.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-326).
Table of contents: title: The expanding human universe: The laughter of Copernicus / Jim Holt; title: A changing earth / Dougal Dixon; title: A million years of evolution / Steven B. Harris; title: Deep space in deep time: Life among the stars / Lisa Kaltenegger; title: A luminous future / Catharine Asaro; title: Citizens of the galaxy / Wil McCarthy; title: Under conctruction : redesigning the solar system / Robert Bradbury; title: The rapacious hardscrapple frontier / Robin Hanson; title: The mind/body in year million: Do you want to live forever? / Pamela Sargent and Anne Corwin; title: Communicating with the universe / Amara D. Angelica; title: The great awakening / Rudy Rucker; title: Into the very deepest future: The rise and fall of time / Sean M. Carroll; title: The final dark / Gregory Benford; title: After the stars are gone / George Zebrowski.