X-events : the collapse of everything
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- ISBN: 9780062088284 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 0062088289 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
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ix, 326 p. ; 24 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, c2012.
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General Note: | New October 2014. "William Morrow" |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-317) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Pt. 1: Why normal isn't so "normal" anymore -- Pt. 1: 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 ; A 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 -- Pt. III: X-events redux -- Notes and references -- Index. |
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Subject: | Technology -- Social aspects Technology -- Social aspects -- Forecasting Social prediction |
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Elkford Public Library | 303.483 CAS (Text) | 35170000334375 | Adult Nonfiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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