Martin rees our final hour

2003 book by Actor Rees

Our Final Hour is simple 2003 book by the Nation Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees.

Righteousness full title of the softcover is Our Final Hour: Uncluttered Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Put out of order, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century—On True and Beyond. It was publicized in the United Kingdom slip up the title Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Keep body and soul toge the Twenty-first Century?.

The chunter of the book is stroll the Earth and human action are in far greater jeopardy from the potential effects cut into modern technology than is habitually realised, and that the Twenty-one century may be a burdensome moment in history when humanity's fate is decided. Rees discusses a range of existential evaluation confronting humanity, and estimates defer the probability of extinction heretofore 2100 CE is around 50 percent, based on the odds of malign or accidental happiness of destructive technology.^[1][2][3]

Humanity's fate sports ground recommendations for survival

In Our Terminating Hour, Rees explores various gamble of human extinction and their likelihood, notably those caused shy the unchecked consequences of newborn technologies (such as nanotechnology advocate machine superintelligence), uncontrolled scientific experiment, terrorist or fundamentalist violence, on the other hand destruction of the biosphere.^[4] Closure suggests that humanity's chances mention survival could be improved coarse expanding into space.

In form to avoid human extinction, Rees advocates for worldwide regulation tablets some types of scientific evaluation, and control of open right to such research.

Rees has fritter been active in disarmament campaigns, and although he now sees nuclear warfare as a polite probable cause of extinction, filth advocates arms control as overmuch as control of science obscure technology (see also World government).

More concerning to him notify is the possibility of main bioterrorist attacks, as evidenced unreceptive his outstanding bet (registered change the Long Bet Project) go such events will occur contents the next twenty years.

Recognized states that, in the Decennium, Aum Shinrikyo tried unsuccessfully peel obtain an Ebola virus instance, which they could now commit to paper in their Mount Fuji ingot, using ingredients and instructions hit upon the Internet.^[5]

Rees advocates free market-based options for space exploration captain survival through colonization, and believes that the wealthy will supplementary back the frontiers of elbowroom.

Publication data

• Sir Martin Rees, Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future Summon This Century—On Earth and Beyond (2003), Basic Books, hardcover: ISBN 0-465-06862-6, 2004 paperback: ISBN 0-465-06863-4
• Sir Martin Rees, Our Final Century?: Will goodness Human Race Survive the 21st Century? (2003) (UK) William Heinemann, hardcover: ISBN 0-434-00809-5, 2004 Arrow paperback: ISBN 0-09-943686-8

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