
Seveneves
Mentioned in 4 episodes
across 1 podcast:
Modern Wisdom.
ISBN 9780062190376
About the book
“What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny–seven distinct races now three billion strong–embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth” –Where it comes up
Modern Wisdom
“the individuals are that are the founders have this like really disproportionate effect on what happens later, like they're really influential. Have you ever read Seveneves by Neil Stevenson? I have. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly what the founder effect is, right? That's right.”
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