It is 2500. In Eurafrica, every child gets the same optimal start in life. Shira, a researcher and weaver who lives in the hyper-dense city of New Jozi, investigates old birthing traditions and is conducting an unorthodox experiment. On the other side of the planet, midwife Lucot struggles to access technology appropriate for the less evolved American context. They collaborate with shared curiosity and compassion in this story that explores the balance between useful social norms and individual freedom. How will Shira's experiment turn out? Will Lucot get what he needs?
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Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 127 mm
Dicke: 4 mm
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978-989-33-6654-7 (9789893366547)
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Judy Backhouse writes optimistic future fiction to explore better futures for humankind and planet Earth.
Before we can bring about better futures, we must imagine them so that they enter the domain of possibility. Stories are a way to expand our minds and adjust the possibility horizon.
Judy retired in 2023 from a long career which included work as a mathematician, an information systems architect, a senior manager in the corporate world, advisor to the South African Minister of Higher Education, Head of the School of Economics and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and a researcher at the United Nations University investigating how technologies can improve governance.
Having earnestly pursued truth and explored the limits of evidence, she now (in the words of the immortal Le Guin) makes stuff up.
