Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning : How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century--On Earth and Beyond - Hardcover

Rees, Martin J.

 
9780465068623: Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning : How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century--On Earth and Beyond

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An astrophysicist theorizes that the human race may not survive the twenty-first century, citing the ways in which technology could potentially destroy the human species and the universe itself with engineered viruses, nano-machines, and other threats. 100,000 first printing.

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Matrin Rees is a leading researcher on cosmic evolution, black holes, and galaxies. He has himself originated many key ideas, and brings a unique perspective to themes discussed in this book. He is currently a Royal Society Research Professor, and Great Britain’s Astronomer Royal. Through based in Cambridge University for most of his career, he travels extensively, and collaborates wit many colleagues in the U.S. and elsewhere. He is an enthusiast for international collaboration in research, and is a member of several foreign academies.


Martin Rees is Royal Society Professor at Cambridge University, a Fellow of King's College, and England's Astronomer Royal.

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ISBN 10:  0465068634 ISBN 13:  9780465068630
Verlag: Basic Books, 2004
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