X-Events by John L Casti

X-Events by John L Casti

I am an assiduous reader of John Casti's books. He is a real scientific intellectual.
--Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of>Fooled by Randomness

Casti is at his best in presenting difficult philosophical ideas enthusiastically and lucidly, and in presenting everyday examples to illustrate them.
--New York Times Book Review

In his highly provocative and grippingly readable book, X-Events, author John Casti brilliantly argues that today's advanced, overly complex societies have grown highly vulnerable to extreme events that will ultimately topple civilization like a house of cards. Like Nassim Taleb's>The Black Swan>meets Jared Diamond's>Collapse, Casti's book provides a much-needed wake-up call--sounding a fascinating and frightening warning about civilized society's inability to recover from a global catastrophe-- demonstrating how humankind could be blasted back into the Stone Age by a meteor strike, nuclear apocalypse, worldwide contagion, or any number of unforeseeable>X-Events.