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Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans - and Other Possible Phenomena
By: Mike Pearl
Narrated by: Mike Pearl
Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 09-17-19
Language: English
Genre: Nonfiction, Social Sciences
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Includes accompanying reference material (pdf)
Publisher's Summary
From a Vice Magazine columnist whose beat is “the future”, here is entertaining speculation featuring both authoritative research and a bit of mischief: a look at how humanity is likely to weather such happenings as the day nuclear war occurs, the day the global internet goes down, the day we run out of effective antibiotics, and the day immortality is achieved.
If you live on planet Earth, you’re probably scared of the future. How could you not be? Some of the world’s most stable democracies are looking pretty shaky. Technology is invading personal relationships and taking over jobs. Relations among the three superpowers - the US, China, and Russia - are growing more complicated and dangerous. A person watching the news has to wonder: Is it safe to go out there or not?
Taking inspiration from his virally popular Vice column “How Scared Should I Be?”, Mike Pearl in The Day It Finally Happens games out many of the “could it really happen?” scenarios we’ve all speculated about, assigning a probability rating, and taking us through how it would unfold. He explores what would likely occur in dozens of possible scenarios - among them the final failure of antibiotics, the loss of the world’s marine life, a complete ban on guns in the US, and even the arrival of aliens - and reports back from the future, providing a clear picture of how the world would look, feel, and even smell in each of these instances.
For fans of such best sellers as What If? and The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook, The Day It Finally Happens is about taking future events that we don’t really understand and getting to know them in close detail. Pearl makes science accessible and is a unique form of existential therapy, offering practical answers to some of our most worrisome questions. Thankfully, the odds of humanity’s pulling through look pretty good.
©2019 Mike Pearl (P)2019 Simon & Schuster Audio
Reviews:
“A deeply entertaining—if occasionally horrifying—imagining of a world where the unlikely has become the reality.”
—Joshua Piven, coauthor of international bestseller The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
“In his fascinating book The Day It Finally Happens journalist Mike Pearl, who admits almost gleefully that he suffers from generalized anxiety disorder and extended stretches of panic, imagines the future and is shocked by what he foresees. Think Woody Allen meets Alvin Toffler... He’s a funny guy, but with a serious side. I came away from The Day It Finally Happens bubbling with new information, and hopeful (but not certain) of a better future.”
—Charles Panati, former science editor of Newsweek and author of Panati’s Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody
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