Another Other: An Unlikely Path to a Future United World-and What That Future Would Think about Us

We are separated from the future by a chasm of imagined apocalypses and miracles. We are separated from the technological foundation of our society by a chasm of scale between the individual self and the global manufacturing network. And we are separated from each other by chasms of bias and fear. Despite - or maybe because of - some of our looming apocalypses, our future selves might be less separated from technology and from each other. Population decline, the creation of self-sustaining Throughline communities, and the eventual discovery of alien life create possible futures populated with viewpoints that might see us, the Before Time people, as barbarians or, conversely, as technological gods.