Year million : science at the far edge of knowledge /

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Imprint:	New York : Atlas & Co., c2008.
Description:	xxvii, 330 p. ; 19 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Forecasting. Science -- Forecasting. Social change. Civilization, Modern. Longevity. Life on other planets. Civilization, Modern. Forecasting. Life on other planets. Longevity. Science -- Forecasting. Social change. Outer space. Outer space. Essays. Essays.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7302792

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Varying Form of Title:	Science at the far edge of knowledge
Other authors / contributors:	Broderick, Damien.
ISBN:	9780977743346 (trade pbk.) 0977743349 (trade pbk.) 9781934633052 (library cloth) 1934633054 (library cloth)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-326).
Summary:	In fourteen original essays, leading scientists and science writers cast their minds forward to 1,000,000 C.E., exploring an almost inconceivably distant future.
Other form:	Online version: Year million. New York : Atlas & Co., c2008

Table of Contents:

The expanding human universe: The laughter of Copernicus / Jim Holt
A changing earth / Dougal Dixon
A million years of evolution / Steven B. Harris
Deep space in deep time: Life among the stars / Lisa Kaltenegger
A luminous future / Catharine Asaro
Citizens of the galaxy / Wil McCarthy
Under construction : redesigning the solar system / Robert Bradbury
The rapacious hardscrapple frontier / Robin Hanson
The mind/body in year million: Do you want to live forever? / Pamela Sargent and Anne Corwin
Communicating with the universe / Amara D. Angelica
The great awakening / Rudy Rucker
Into the very deepest future: The rise and fall of time / Sean M. Carroll
The final dark / Gregory Benford
After the stars are gone / George Zebrowski.

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