JOEL GARREAU is a student of culture, values and change. The author of the bestselling Edge City: Life on the New Frontier and The Nine Nations of North America, he is a reporter and editor at The Washington Post, a member of the scenario-planning organization Global Business Network, and has served as a senior fellow at George Mason University and the University of California at Berkeley. He has appeared on such national media as Good Morning America, Today, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, NBC Nightly News, ABC’s World News Tonight, and NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He lives in Broad Run, Virginia.
Advance praise for RADICAL EVOLUTION
“An eye-opening exploration of how cutting-edge 21st-century
technologies, in embryonic form right now, pose the stark
alternatives of a real life Utopia or Brave New World… Garreau has
an eye for the anecdote that throws much of this Buck Rogers
technology into compelling human terms… Excellent scientific
journalism on the challenges arising from a real tipping point in
human relations.” Kirkus (Starred Review)
“How weird, how soon? That’s the question that dominates the
debates about the coming of ‘post-humanity.’ With his customary
journalistic acumen and wry humor, Garreau has the answer: much
weirder than you imagine, much sooner than you expect.” — Stewart
Brand, author of The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility
and The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T.
“Joel Garreau lives well ahead of the curve — even the really big
Curve he describes in these pages. One of our foremost chroniclers
of change and historians of the future, he’s done it again.” — Bill
McKibben, author of Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age and
The End of Nature
“Joel Garreau has hit upon something critical here, something most
of us see daily and struggle to make sense of: That human
technology may be advancing faster than our ability to adapt,
leaving us ill-equipped to measure and manage the consequences.
This is a timely, important book, and a fascinating read.” — Nathan
McCall, author of Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in
America
“It isn't often an author gets to herald the biggest news in the
last 10,000 years. But you'll get the full, uncensored,
mind-blowing report here in this entertaining and surprisingly deep
book.” - Kevin Kelly, author of Out of Control and Wired
editor-at-large
“Radical Evolution" is truly outstanding. I was hooked. It reads
like a thriller, informs like a textbook, engages like a love note.
Garreau is, truly, an artist.” - Eamonn Kelly, co-author, What's
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