Magazine
November 2019
Cover design by Thomas Gaulkin. Photos courtesy Marcio Ramalho and Pixabay.
In this issue, top experts examine technology-related doomsdays the world might soon face if they go unaddressed, not to frighten readers, but to alert them, so they might act in time, making a loud and unmistakable demand: that the Earth be preserved, that the human experiment be extended, that midnight never toll.
Features
Former Defense Secretary William Perry: Why we must describe doomsday to keep it from happening
The apocalypse: It’s not the end of the world
Revisiting the climate collapse: The view from Nuuk in the year 2070
The existential threat of antimicrobial resistance
The threats from nanotechnology
US ballistic missile defenses, 2019
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