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Falter

Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

by Bill McKibben

Hardcover, 291 pages, Henry Holt & Co, List Price: $28 |

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Title: Falter
Subtitle: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Author: Bill McKibben

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Shares cautionary insights into how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and robotics, are being developed through fervent ideologies that are threatening the diversity of human experience.

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April 16, 2019 • Bill McKibben, who first warned of climate change 30 years ago, says its effects are now upon us: "The idea that anybody's going to be immune from this anywhere is untrue." His new book is Falter.

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