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Big History
Big History is academic discipline (begun in the 1990's) which examines history from the Big Bang to the present. It examines extremely long time frames using a multidisciplinary approach combining numerous disciplines from science (physics, chemistry, biology, physiology, archaeology, forensics) and the humanities, and explores history and the universe from the context of this bigger perspective.
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The economy of early hominids and that of twenty-first century society have enormous differences, but they do share one important feature: in both of these economies, humans accumulate information in objects. Our world is different from that of early hominids only in the way in which atoms are arranged.
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If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Humanity is about two hundred thousand years old. But the Earth will remain habitable for hundreds of millions more—enough time for millions of future generations; enough to end disease, poverty and injustice forever; enough to create heights of flourishing unimaginable today. And if we could learn to reach out further into the cosmos, we could have more time yet: trillions of years, to explore billions of worlds. Such a lifespan places humanity
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― The Precipice
― The Precipice
Reading mind-blowing non-fiction books on humanity, our world, the universe and how it’s all con…more
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