title: Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth
author:  Curt Stager 
description: <div><strong>Product Description</strong><br /> <DIV><DIV><DIV><P>A bold, far-reaching look at how our actions will decide the planet&#8217;s future for millennia to come.</P> <P>Imagine a planet where North American and Eurasian navies are squaring off over shipping lanes through an acidified, ice-free Arctic. Centuries later, their northern descendants retreat southward as the recovering sea freezes over again. And later still, future nations plan how to avert an approaching Ice Age... by burning what remains of our fossil fuels.</P> <P>These are just a few of the events that are likely to befall Earth and human civilization in the next 100,000 years. And it will be the choices we make in this century that will affect that future more than those of any previous generation. We are living at the dawn of the Age of Humans; the only question is how long that age will last. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;</P> <P>Few of us have yet asked, &#8220;What happens after global warming?&#8221; Drawing upon the latest, groundbreaking works of a handful of climate visionaries, Deep Future helps us look beyond 2100 a.d. to the next hundred millennia of life on Earth.&#160; </P></DIV></DIV></DIV> <br /> </div> <hr class="bucketDivider" size="1" /> <br /> <span class="h1"><strong> Amazon Exclusive: A Conversation Between Bill McKibben and Curt Stager</strong></span><br /> <br/>
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  BEN BOVA
  
  The Future of Science:
  
  Prometheus, Apollo,
  
  Athena
  
  Where is science heading? Is it taking us on a one-way ride to oblivion, or
  leading the human spirit upward to the stars? Science fiction writers have
  been predicting both, for centuries.
  
  "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided," Patrick Henry said, "and
  that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but
  by the past."
  
  Look at the past, at the way science and technology have affected the human
  race. Look far back.
  
  Picture all of humanity from the earliest Homo erectus of a half-million years
  ago as a single human being.
  
  Now picture science as a genie that will grant that person the traditional
  three wishes of every good fable.
  
  We have already used up one of those wishes. We are working on the second one
  of them now.
  
  And the future of