X-Events

<p><strong>A necessary and thought-provoking read for the age of coronavirus exploring eleven scenarios that may trigger the collapse of the modern world -- from pandemics to nuclear apocalypse to robot uprisings -- and what we can do to prevent and survive them. </strong></p><p>In the twenty first century our world has become impossibly complicated relying on ever more advanced technology that is developing at an exponential rate. Yet it is a fact of mathematical life that higher and higher levels of complexity lead to systems that are increasingly fragile and susceptible to sudden spectacular collapse.</p><p>In this highly provocative and grippingly readable book John Casti brilliantly argues that today's advanced overly complex societies have grown highly vulnerable to extreme events that will ultimately topple civilization like a house of cards. Like Nassim Taleb's <em>The Black Swan </em>meets Jared Diamond's <em>Collapse</em> Casti's book provides a much-needed wake-up call sounding a fascinating and frightening warning about civilized society's inability to recover from a global catastrophe.</p> <p>An eye-opening and necessary read <em>X-Events</em> is a shocking look at a world teetering on the brink of collapse and a population under constant threat from pandemic viruses worldwide communication breakdowns nuclear winter or any number of unforeseeable X-Events. Fascinating and chilling <em>X-Events</em> provides a provocative tour of the catastrophic outlier scenarios that could quickly send us crashing back to the preindustrial age - and shows that they may not be as far-fetched as they seem. </p>