The Evolutionary Trajectory - The Growth of Information in the History and Future of Earth (Hardcover)

Bringing together a cybernetic analysis of changing systems, the study of organic evolution, thermodynamics, paeleontology and information theory, Coren argues in this text that evolution is a single process. It began with the Big Bang, continues through organic change on earth and the growth of civilizations, and extends through to the technological accomplishments of humankind. This process of evolution is revealed through a study of the rate of evolutionary change on earth, how that change is measured and interpreted, the cyclic nature of its occurrence, and its continuity to the present and future. The author also theorizes that the next major evolutionary step will take place before the year 2150, and he discusses the forms that it might take and explores what may follow.