The big picture of human history can be terrifying or comforting, depending on how you look at it. In the grand scheme of things, as individuals, we don’t matter much at all. Stars will die and black holes will swallow galaxies. Entropy will eventually destroy everything—including us. What can we accomplish as a society before that happens?
The Story So Far
With Bill Gates, David Christian co-founded something called the Big History Project, an attempt to summarize the 14 billion years that comprise the history of the universe. In Origin Story, Christian covers all that time in just one book. But we’ve done him one better, and condensed it into our latest Instaread.
