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    • Advance Praise
    • Explore Web of Meaning >
      • Introduction
      • Who Am I?
      • Where Am I?
      • What Am I?
      • How Should I Live?
      • Why Am I?
      • Where Are We Going?
    • Book Club Guide
  • The Patterning Instinct
    • Themes
    • Explore Themes >
      • Culture, Values, and History
      • Human Nature
      • Science and Religion
      • Power and Exploitation
      • Consumer Society
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Recommended Further Reading

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Book excerpts

How do civilizations collapse?

Are we headed for a technological Singularity?

Could humanity bifurcate into two separate species?

Is a future of sustainable flourishing possible?

Video

The Great Transformation, Or How We (Just) Avoided a Climate Catastrophe

Blog posts

Infinition: Our Acceleration to the Infinite

Review: More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement

The slippery slope to
​d-humans

A view from the 22nd century:
The human race is on trial. At stake… its continued existence

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The Future:
Recommended Further Reading
 

Paul Raskin et al., Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead (Boston: Stockholm Environment Institute, 2003)
A short but deeply thought through assessment of the possible future scenarios facing humanity.

Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change (New York: Random House, 2013).
A thorough and discerning evaluation of the major drivers for change in our global society, and their implications for the future.

Joseph A. Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
A scholarly analysis of societal collapse that has deservedly framed much serious discussion on the topic since its publication.

Jorgen Randers, 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2012).
A thoughtful projection into the future by one of the original team members of Limits to Growth.

Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999).
A penetrating and visionary account of the enormity of the challenge and opportunity facing humanity in the future.

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