This was my and Tom’s first attempt to set out our proposed cosmic and optimistic narrative. An extract: Read more »

This was the video designed for and shown at the book launch in July 2011.

What is the book about?

This book is about the fact that, even though life is very hard, this is the greatest golden age the world has ever seen by every parameter of human welfare that it is possible to measure, and there is every reason to believe that our species can look forward to ever more glorious ages of collective self actualisation and enlightenment.

And everyone alive gets to be part of that. So please, let’s embrace it.

One of the extraordinary things about this age is that the way we experience the universe is being subjected to systematic study. Lots of insights are being thrown up. We, as citizens of planet Earth, should be assimilating those insights into our world views and attempting to understand what they mean for us.

That’s what I tried to do – explore the world as thoroughly as I could then, combining what I’ve experienced with what I’ve learned and using information available to anyone who can read, I’m going to suggest how we might interpret it.

Put childish things aside

Some of the team from the HotHive were kind enough to head down to the factory where the first print run of books were created. Read more »