John Higgs Books
John Higgs is a British author and journalist known for his works on cultural history, science, and countercultural movements. His books often explore the intersection of ideas, creativity, and the evolution of modern thought.
Known for: Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century, The Future Starts Here: Adventures in the Digital World
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Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
A cultural history exploring how the twentieth century reshaped human thought, from relativity and quantum mechanics to modern art, psychology, and the internet. John Higgs connects scientific revolut...
The Future Starts Here: Adventures in the Digital World
A thought-provoking exploration of how technology, culture, and human creativity are shaping the world of tomorrow. John Higgs examines the digital revolution’s impact on society, ethics, and identity...
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Relativity and the End of Absolute Time
When Einstein published his theory of relativity in 1905, he did more than alter physics—he reshaped humanity’s sense of reality. Before Einstein, the universe felt orderly, mechanical, and predictable. Time flowed evenly like a river; space was a fixed stage upon which events unfolded. Newton’s law...
From Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
Quantum Mechanics and Uncertainty
If Einstein cracked the foundation of certainty, quantum mechanics exploded it. The physicists of the early twentieth century—Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger—found a universe that refused to be pinned down. At the quantum level, particles behaved like waves; their positions existed only as probabiliti...
From Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
The Collapse of Old Narratives
The twentieth century promised linear progress—solid ideologies, coherent identities, predictable structures. Yet by the dawn of the digital age, those narratives began to crumble. In this collapse, I see both a crisis and an opportunity. The grand stories that once explained everything—religious ce...
From The Future Starts Here: Adventures in the Digital World
The Internet as a New Environment
To understand our century, we must stop thinking of the internet as a tool and start seeing it as an environment. This environment reshapes everything it touches—our economy, relationships, beliefs, and even our perception of time. Unlike the old, hierarchical world of broadcast media, the internet ...
From The Future Starts Here: Adventures in the Digital World
About John Higgs
John Higgs is a British author and journalist known for his works on cultural history, science, and countercultural movements. His books often explore the intersection of ideas, creativity, and the evolution of modern thought.
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