A review by nohaggerty
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity by Martin Rees

3.0

Rees does an excellent job of describing and analyzing the issues we as a species face within the next century; however, as the book progresses and Rees wanders into speculation of the far future, his reasoning and purpose fall flat. The 3rd and particularly 4th chapter (of 5) are full of dead-end tangents, questionable logical steps, and at times, meaningless speculation. Rees maintains a strong purpose and theme when discussing what needs to be done to face the problems of this upcoming century, but the reasoning for venturing into the content of the 3rd and 4th chapter is never clearly conveyed.