Humans have made a staggering amount of scientific and technological progress over the past century. We’ve created technology that has transformed our society; scientific advances have helped us answer fundamental questions abou…
THERE WOULD BE A lot of contenders for the "last light" title. The superb 2007 book The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman, explored in great detail what would happen to Earth's houses, roads, skyscrapers, farms, an…