I will also be on a panel at Rutgers-New Brunswick with Kim Stanley Robinson and with other Rutgers faculty discussing this novel on April 5. Works like Robinson’s – starkly beautiful and fundamentally optimistic visions of technological and social change in the face of some of the worst devastation we might bring upon ourselves – can inspire that focus in a way that myopic discussions of the near term or grim, apocalyptic tales cannot. But to make those changes and to adapt to the changes we don’t avoid, the world’s best minds need to focus, not on new apps or financial innovations, but on the civilizational challenges at hand. Reviews New York 2140 Review New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson Coming to grips with the sheer imaginative immensity of Kim Stanley Robinson’s futurist novel, NEW YORK 2140 prompted a brief journey to my past - to New York circa 1959. Science tells us that, by reshaping our global energy and agricultural systems, we can avoid the magnitude of planetary change that Robinson depicts. New York 2140 Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9780356508771 A towering novel Guardian Relevant and essential Bloomberg Businessweek RT BOOK REVIEWS.

Limate fiction can play a critical role in the face of the large-scale experiment we humans are conducting with the world’s climate system: inspiring creative rethinks of the designs and technologies needed to reshape how we relate to our environment. I reviewed Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel, New York 2140, for The Conversation. We’re starting off with the first two parts, The Tyranny of Sunk Costs and Expert Overconfidence. Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140: A review This week begins our online book club ‘s reading of Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140.

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