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Condition: Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ... Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

ISBN: 9780380975372

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Human civilization has evolved to the point at which we have begun consciously sending messages into the far future. Thousands of time capsules have been developed to keep artifacts intact for an audience many generations hence. Space missions have already sent messages into nearby space; in the coming ages we will be able to launch probes accurately to other stars as well. Just as we struggle to interpret the philosophy and technology behind such ancient markers as Stonehenge and the pyramids, so inhabitants of distant eras will seek to decipher the remnants of our twenty-first century. Physicist Gregory Benford explores the issue of far-reaching communication in a provocative analysis of humanity's attempts to make its culture immortal, to cross the immense gulf that such deep-time messages must span in order to be understood. In accessible language, he confronts our growing influence on far future events and the necessity of transmitting certain information. Benford asks students such provocative questions as: - What information should we choose to leave for those who will live a million years from now, on Earth and beyond? - How can we successfully communicate knowledge about who we are and what we have accomplished to unknown cultures and languages elsewhere in time and space? - How can the danger of a nuclear waste site, whose toxicity will last into deep time and may last longer than the culture that created it, be clearly conveyed? - Should we and can we create a library of life to warn future inhabitants of the dangers of the extinction of species and the depletion of natural resources? And, he provides a unique guide to our current attempts to reach across time as well as an enlightened map to some of the astounding futures which may await us in deep time.

Product Identifiers

Publisher

Harpercollins Publishers Inc

ISBN-13

9780380975372

eBay Product ID (ePID)

95905297

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Item Weight

420g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author

Gregory Benford

Book Title

Deep Time

Author

Gregory Benford

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Subject

General Knowledge

Publication Year

1999

Type

Textbook

Country/Region of Manufacture

United States

Number of Pages

225 Pages

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