Description

Last and First Men: A Tale of the Far and Near Future is just a "future history" science-fiction book published in 1930 by the British writer Olaf Stapledon. A function of unparalleled size in the style, it explains the real history of mankind in the existing onwards across two million years and eighteen unique individual species, which our very own may be the first and most simple. Stapledon's understanding of history is dependant on the Hegelian Dialectic, adhering to a repeated period with several diverse civilizations increasing from and descending back to savagery over an incredible number of years, however it can also be among improvement, whilst the later civilizations rise to much greater levels compared to first. The book anticipates the technology of genetic engineering, and is definitely an early exemplory instance of the imaginary supermind; an awareness made up of several telepathically-connected people.