Fremtiden
- Translated title:
- The Future
- Author:
- Eirik Newth (author)
- Language:
- Norwegian (bokmål)
- Original language:
- Norwegian (bokmål)
- Category:
- Science
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Synopsis:
This is a book about the immediate human future; its perils, its hopes, its possible solutions, its possible unfoldings.
- Review:
Like Asimov's Counting the Eons, this is an excellent book about the future of the world, but unlike Counting the Eons, the meat of Fremtiden limits itself to only a few millennia into the future; the beginning and ultimate fate of the Universe are discussed, but with far less detail than Counting the Eons and with far more emphasis put on the future of the human species and how it can survive (or become extinct). Especially eerie, I think, is the chapter discussing space lifts to geostationary space stations 36 000 kilometers above the Earth's surface. Reading about that gave me the same fuzzy feelings as seeing the space walk between the spaceships Alexei Leonov and the Discovery over Jupiter in 2010: The Year We Made Contact did. I mean, just imagine that! The book unfortunately contains a lot of typos, but I actually forgive him for that; the book is too interesting to dismiss on that ground.
- Has read?
- Yes