How to be Human: The Manual [antikvár]

PrefaceAfter writing my last book I said to myself, never again. It's like having a baby: you re in such pain during the birth, all you want to do is chew your arms off; it's the same with writing a book, except you're dilated for more than a year. But when it finally comes out and it thrives (hits number one on that bestseller list), oh my God, all you want to do is get fertile and do it again. So here it is, my next baby.IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD and then my book. I'm going to start where we all started, back in the swamp and with a fine-toothed comb find out exactly what happened to make us who we are today. (I spoke a little about this in Frazzled but am now digging deeper). Are we everything evolution dreamed we'd be? If not - who can we blame? Not that we can do anything about it, but if there's life on other planets, they may learn from us. The human race is a miracle when it comes to survival. If you're alive and reading this book right now, you're a bona fide, gold medal winner in the 'Evolutionary Hunger Games' where you had about a trillion to one chance of not being born a frog. This should make us the happiest species alive, butM .we're not. We spend our time on earth in a constant hunt for contentment, and as far as that goes we're in a holding pattern. So what's going to happen and where are we going?You can't stop the future from arriving, no matter what drugs you're on. But even if nearly every part of us becomes robotic, we'll still have, fingers crossed, our minds which) 1'