Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning

✍ Scribed by Martin Rees

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Bolstered by unassailable science and delivered in eloquent style, Our Final Hour's provocative argument that humanity has a mere 5050 chance of surviving the next century has struck a chord with readers, reviewers, and opinion-makers everywhere. Rees's vision of our immediate future is both a work of stunning scientific originality and a humanistic clarion call on behalf of the future of life.

✦ Table of Contents

OUR FINAL HOUR [Title Page]
......Page 1
Cover
......Page 2
International Acclaim for Martin Rees's OUR FINAL HOUR......Page 3
OTHER BOOKS BY MARTI
N REES......Page 4
ISBN
......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 6

PROLOGUE......Page 7
2. TECHNOLOGY SHOCK......Page 15
A Human or Posthuman Future?......Page 25
3. THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK......Page 33
4. POST-2000 THREATS Terror and Error......Page 49
5. PERPETRATORS AND PALLIATIVES......Page 69
6. SLOWING SCIENCE DOWN?......Page 79
Asteroid Impacts......Page 95
A Low Risk, but Not Negligible......Page 98
Reducing the Risk?......Page 100
8. HUMAN THREATS TO EARTH......Page 104
9. EXTREME RISKS......Page 116
Our "Final" Experiment?......Page 120
11.THE END OF SCIENCE?......Page 141
12. DOES OUR FATE HAVE COSMIC SIGNIFICANCE?......Page 156
13. BEYOND EARTH......Page 168
NOTES......Page 185

✦ Subjects

Философские дисциплины;Философия науки;