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The Safety Net

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This book is about re-examining our technology – not in the 10-month window of Silicon Valley cycles,
but in the context of 10,000 years of civilizations. We will widen our lens to encompass the globe and lengthen our timescales to think about millennia.
From that vantage point, we'll see ourselves in a new light in which we are just starting to open our eyes
and blink in the dawn of a new millennium that has changed all of the old equations.

 

The Safety Net: Surviving Pandemics and Other Disasters  is an upcoming e-book and audiobook, due for release in July 2020. This book originally debuted some years ago as an iPad app called Why The Net Matters, and in that form it introduced a novel way to navigate a non-fiction argument, to zoom in and out on 3D interactive figures, and to navigate with random-access chapters. Alas, the iPad app is no longer available, but in 2020 we have put out a fully updated and revised version of the book.

  • "Some of the most fascinating books around aren't books; they're superbooks -- books with so much functionality that they're sold as apps. Consider David Eagleman's Why the Net Matters, a book about the Internet with photos, animation and even 3D." - New York Times
  • "This is an impressive and intriguing work" - Telegraph (UK)
  • "I read it in one sitting, engrossed.... This bold restatement of the political and social potential of the web was useful and intelligent in its simplicity." - BookFutures.
  • "A very enjoyable app with Eagleman's ideas very accessible and engaging." - FutureBook
  • "Why the Net Matters on the iPad is a breakthrough work, showing the way for generations of digital books to come.  Text has never been so spectacularly illustrated; intellectual argument has never been so fluidly designed.  And Eagleman's message is as revolutionary as his format: The Internet protects civilization from collapse without even trying."  - Stewart Brand, President, The Long Now Foundation

Why the Net Matters was a finalist for the Digital Book World Innovation Awards.

What's the book about? The Safety Net argues that the advent of the internet sidesteps the dangers that brought down previous civilizations.  If you'd like a taste of the content, here's a talk I delivered at the Long Now Foundation. (For over a week this was the most watched video on fora.tv, and was ranked the #8 technology talk of 2010)

Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization from The Long Now Foundation

This thesis about the internet started life as a short piece I wrote in Nature in 2006 about the internet and epidemics, and then fleshed out in a short essay in WIRED and in the book Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?

Although the app is no longer available on the iPad, here's a demonstration of the app in action:

Please click on the links on the right to read excerpts and see screenshots.

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From the Blog

  • CNN's Next List - video profile
    CNN's Next List - video profile

    I was named a CNN Next List Fellow. Watch two clips from the show.

  • Book extract from "The Brain: The Story of You" in the Financial Times
    Book extract from "The Brain: The Story of You" in the Financial Times

    Our drive to come together into groups yields a survival advantage — but it has a dark side.

  • Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
    Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization

    Watch a talk I gave at the Long Now Foundation about my hopes that the advent of the internet will mitigate threats that brought down previous civilizations.

  • Documentary on the History Channel
    Documentary on the History Channel

    Interested in issues of memory and the brain? Watch a clip of David on the History Channel.

In other news...

Musician Jarvis Cocker reads from Sum

Listen to British rocker Jarvis Cocker read the story "Descent of Species" from Sum. He is one of the dozens of terrific voices who read for the audio book.

Guggenheim Fellowship

David has been named a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. He will use the fellowship opportunity to pursue the genetics and neuroimaging of synesthesia.

 

New Yorker magazine profile

Read a profile of David in The New Yorker: The Possibilian: What a brush with death taught David Eagleman about the mysteries of time and the brain by Burkhard Bilger.
Eagleman in the New Yorker

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