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Horst Hanusch () and Yasushi Hara ()
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Horst Hanusch: University of Augsburg, Faculty of Business and Economics
Yasushi Hara: Kobe University, Faculty of Business Administration

Chapter Chapter 1 in Innovative Growth and Climate Security, 2026, pp 1-6 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract “Big History”, a new scientific discipline, has recently produced two remarkable publications: first, the internationally highly successful book by Yuval Noah Harari, entitled “Homo Deus” (2017), and second, a treatise by David Christians entitled “Big History: Between Nothing and Everything” (Christian et al., 2013), which arguably gave its name to the entire field of science. Both books excellently characterize the ambivalent situation we find ourselves in today when thinking about the future development of our planet. Harari, on the one hand, promises the birth of a new technological age, in which creative human beings and intelligent machines together will form a wonderful symbiosis, producing a “Garden of Eden”, with an incredible potential of fruitful effects for the progress and prosperity of mankind.

Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-92-1005-3_1

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