Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia

Combining the logical rigor with the lyrical finesse of a novelist , award-winning author Gregory Benford explores these and other fascinating questions in this provocative analysis of humanity's attempts to make its culture immortal.  In Deep Time he confronts our growing influence on events hundreds of thousands of years into the future and explores the possible "messeges" we may transmit to our distant descendants in the language of the planet itself, from nuclear waste to global warming to the extinction of species.  As we begin our incredible journey down the path of eternity, Gregory Benford masterfully calls forth some of the intriguing, astounding, undreamed-of futures which may await us in deep time.

Gregory Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine.He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University.and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to sciences. His research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics.His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape.Dr. Benford makes his home in Laguna Beach, California.