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The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds

byChristopher E. Mason

Introducing a 10-phase, 500-year vision for the future of space exploration, genetic engineering, and the human species—on Earth and on other planets. The argument in The Next 500 Years develops through scientific research, fieldwork, and carefully chosen case studies, attending to both broad patterns and the revealing details that resist them. That perspective connects engineering life to reach new worlds to larger questions in medical and science, without losing sight of the people living through the consequences. Rather than reducing its subject to a single lesson, The Next 500 Years preserves its contradictions and shows why they remain important.

Publisher

MIT Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

296

ISBN

9780262543842