NonZero : the logic of human destiny
(2000)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
304.4/WRIGHT,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Pantheon Books, [2000]
©2000
©2000
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
x, 435 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0679442529
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The ladder of cultural evolution -- The way we were -- Add technology and bake for five millennia -- The invisible brain -- War: what is it good for? -- The inevitability of agriculture -- The age of chiefdoms -- The second information revolution -- Civilization and so on -- Our friends the barbarians -- Dark Ages -- The inscrutable Orient -- Modern times -- And here we are -- New world order -- Degrees of freedom -- The cosmic context -- The rise of biological non-zero-sumness -- Why life is so complex -- The last adaptation -- Non-crazy questions -- You call this a god?