Bücher von David Christian

'David Christian's approach to understanding history can help all of us learn to prepare for the future' - Bill GatesA user's guide to the future: from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the fate of the galaxy, and the last black hole...Every second of our lives - whether we're looking both ways before crossing the street, celebrating the birth of a baby, or moving to a new city - we must cope with an unknowable future by telling stories about what will happen next. Where is the future, the place where we set those stories? Can we trust our future stories? And what sort of futures do they show us?David Christian, historian and bestselling author of Origin Story, is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. But with Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future, and a guide to what we think we know about it at all scales, from the predictive mechanisms of single-celled organisms and tomato plants to the merging of colossal galaxies billions of years from now.Drawing together science, history and philosophy from a huge range of places and times, Christian explores how we prepare for uncertain futures, including the future of human evolution, artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, and more. By linking the study of the past much more closely to the study of the future, we can begin to imagine what the world will look like in the next hundred years and consider solutions to the biggest challenges facing us all.

Wie alles anfing - und wie es enden wird David Christian, Begründer der Big History, erzählt die Geschichte der Welt in acht Akten: von der Entstehung des Lebens bis zur Fotosynthese, von der Sprache bis zum menschengemachten Klimawandel. Sein Buch ist eine brillante Synthese der Erkenntnisse aus Physik, Chemie, Biologie, Geologie und Archäologie. Alles, was Sie über Kosmologie, Geologie, Archäologie und Evolutionsbiologie wissen müssen! Eine faszinierende kosmologische Detektivgeschichte, die uns verstehen lässt, wie alles mit allem zusammenhängt. Und eine atemberaubende moderne Ursprungsgeschichte, die mit einem Ausblick auf die Zukunft endet, in der wir endlich die Verantwortung für den Planeten übernehmen müssen. »Mein absoluter Lieblingsgeschichtskurs.« Bill Gates

This book presents the history of globalization as a network-based story in the context of Big History.

This is an interpretative history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union between 1850 and 1991.