Author Description

Today, the human impact on our planet cannot be overstated. Climate change, synthetic biology, mass urbanization – wherever you look, our footprints are unmissable. Although many have tried to improve our relationship with nature, only a few have asked the elementary ‘What is nature?’ This book radically shifts our notion of nature. It makes us reconsider our naive conception of nature as static, balanced and harmonic. Where technology and nature are traditionally seen as opposed, they now appear to merge or even trade places. The Next Nature Book argues that we must no longer see ourselves as the anti-natural species that merely threatens and displaces nature, but rather as catalysts of evolution. With our irresistible desire to control our environment, we facilitate the rise of a next nature as unpredictable as wild software, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and uncannily beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us!