Bibliograph

X-events, the collapse of everything, John Casti

Type

Label

X-events, the collapse of everything, John Casti

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

X-events

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

782988223

Responsibility statement

John Casti

Sub title

the collapse of everything

Summary

The modern industrialized world is a complex system on a scale never before witnessed. Technologically dependent, globally interconnected, it offers seemingly limitless conveniences, choices, and opportunities. Yet this same modern civilization may be as unstable as a house of cards. All it would take to "downsize" our way of life is a nudge from what John Casti calls an "X-event, " an unpredictable occurrence with extreme, even dire, consequences

Table Of Contents

Why normal isn't so "normal" anymore -- Getting down to cases. Digital darkness: a long-term, widespread failure of the Internet ; When do we eat: breakdown of the global food-supply system ; The day the electronics died: a continent-wide electromagnetic pulse destroys all electronics ; New world disorder: the collapse of globalization ; Death by physics: destruction of the earth through the creation of exotic particles ; Blown away: destabilization of the nuclear landscape ; Running on empty: drying up of world oil supplies ; I'm sick of it: a global pandemic ; Dark and dry: failure of the electric power grid and clean water supply ; Technology run amok: intelligent robots overthrow humanity ; The great unwinding: global deflation and the collapse of world financial markets -- X-events redux

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