part one
The Knowing Cosmos
1 We Are Alone 3
2 The Edge of Extinction 6
3 Learning to Think 14
4 Why We Are Here 23
5 The New Knowers 29
part two
The Age of Fire
6 Thomas Newcomen 33
7 A New Age 37
8 Acceleration 41
9 War 45
10 Cities 50
11 The World is Too Much With Us 54
12 The Heat Threat 57
13 Good or Bad? 67
14 A Shout of Joy 74
part three
Into the Novacene
15 AlphaGo 79
16 Engineering the New Age 81
17 The Bit 87
18 Beyond Human 90
19 Talking to the Spheres 96
20 All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace 104
21 Thinking Weapons 112
22 Our Place in Their World 118
23 The Conscious Cosmos 121