How to Predict Everything: The Formula Transforming What We Know About Life and the Universe

Description

There's a useful calculation being used by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors all over the world, and it predicts that the human race has only 760 years left to live. Using its formula, we can look at the world around us with new eyes. What is the chance that there are multiple universes? How long will Hamilton run? Will the US stock market continue to perform as well this century as it has for the last hundred years? And are we all doomed?

William Poundstone is the author of fourteen books, including the international bestseller Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? He lives in Los Angeles.

'Thoroughly entertaining reading and it's not hard to foresee a future in which readers everywhere will find it impossible to put down.' * E&T Magazine * 'a fun and energetic romp through a mishmash of philosophical and cosmological ideas... an engagingly written foray.' * The Inquisitive Biologist * 'A fascinating sweep through so many interesting and important insights into how we can understand our future, masterfully knitted together.' -- Bobby Duffy, author of The Perils of Perception 'One of the best science writers of our time has taken on one of the most interesting and important subjects of all time - how to predict the future under great uncertainty... A gripping read.' -- Michael Shermer, author of Heavens on Earth 'A very interesting and definitive book on this subject.' -- J. Richard Gott, astrophysicist and author of The Cosmic Web