Fire in a Wire: Electricity Empowers Human Evolution Beyond Homo Sapiens - Paperback

by Steven Reed Nelson (Author)

"A bold thesis...weaves anecdote and analysis...provocative...futurism by way of personal odyssey."

-- Brian K. Mahoney, Chronogram Magazine

"Congratulations Steve Nelson for your remarkable time and effort to capture this moment in human history! Well done."

-- Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, inventor of internet over cable

"A provocative invitation to further thinking...accessible and enjoyable...Steven Reed Nelson is a free ranging thinker."

-- Charles Giuliano, Berkshire Fine Arts

"He isn't just 'some guy' with an idea...a long career in communications and technology...his theory is worth reading."

-- Jennifer Huberdeau, The Berkshire Eagle

Fire tells the story Sapiens missed, about the most momentous development in recent human history: using electricity.

Just as fire enabled the evolution of our prehistoric ancestors, so is electricity empowering our ongoing evolution now.

Electricity is the new fire. Fire in a wire.

Many archaic humans arose and then went extinct, like the Neanderthals. Conventional wisdom says Homo sapiens is the sole surviving species of human. But Steven Reed Nelson disagrees. He writes that evolution does not end with sapiens. A dynamic new species is emerging, not in some imagined future but living among us today: Homo electric.

The electrified world is our natural habitat. We use electricity for everything: from providing food to medical care to artificial intelligence to sex. We can't live without it. It is fundamentally changing who we are. We can see things, hear things, do things, know things and imagine things not possible without electricity.

We no longer live in the natural world observed by Charles Darwin and governed by "the survival of the fittest." We can override natural selection. We can alter our DNA. We are taking control of our own evolution. We can, and we must, if we are to survive threats like climate change.

If you are curious about who we were, who we are and who we yet might be, read Fire in a Wire. It will challenge you to rethink who you are and who you are becoming as a human being in the Electric Age.