My Grandfathers' Clock propels the reader through a thousand years of western civilization, as witnessed and shaped by twenty-eight generations of one real and remarkable family. Beginning with a knight in the Battle of Hastings in 1066, successive sons emerge from the Dark Ages, then shape their scientific and religious beliefs through the Renaissance and the Reformation, and into the modern world. Their lives reflect the full breadth of the Anglo-American experience, as they endure the plague, wars, and social, economic, and political revolutions. They settle new worlds, re-establish their faith, develop the modern code of laws. They explore the frontiers of land, of sea, of air, and of space. Throughout it all, the unbroken chain of family life passes incremental im-provements to later generations, to a point where the warring human species of the Dark Ages has united in its conquest of the heavens. 
My Grandfathers’ Clock is a measure of the human spirit, and a meter of our progress in society, our growth in faith and our revelations in science. It proves that we are the product of the toils and the hopes of countless generations. Every citizen is shown to have a role in shaping the future of his or her children, and an impact on all the generations that will follow. My Grandfathers’ Clock is a thousand-year testament that our future is indeed in peace, out among the stars.

My Grandfathers' Clock

Bacon, Jack

Normandy House Publishers

The Second Edition of My Grandfathers' Clock. Over 1000 sold, and counting! Live a millennium of history as experienced by twenty-eight generations of real fathers and sons, from the Dark Ages on up to the Space Age. Watch history unfold from the point of view of average citizens, footsoldiers, and tradesmen. A gripping story with historical context section, line art, and numerous notes for every chapter.

My Stepdaughter's Watch: A Forecast of Technology, Society, and the Coming Generation

Jack Bacon

BANG! Did you see it coming? More than six times as many college graduates are emerging this year than 100 years ago. Millions of them are coming, ready to solve today's problems. In the last decade, we've tripled our knowledge of astronomy, pinpointed the age and size of the universe, counted its galaxies, and found the theory that will link all known physics of the universe. We've found intriguing evidence that we are not alone. We've found ten times as many planets in around other star systems as we have found in our own solar system, and we know it's just the tip of the iceberg. We've decoded our genome. We've doubled our life expectancy. We've changed the workforce and the workweek. We've engineered machines a few atoms in size. From a standing start of zero percent of the US population in 1980 to 67% today, average citizens are now are wired to the internet, in communication with the rest of the world, keeping track of stocks and finding lost friends from decades past. The volume of digital data surpassed the volume of television and telephone data just a few years ago. Meanwhile, every word in every book in most of the world's libraries will be available online (and instantly searchable!) in just a few hundred more days, in every language.

The Parallel Bang (The explosive growth of human understanding in the 21st century)

Science & Math

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My Grandfathers' Clock

My Grandfathers' Clock

My Stepdaughter's Watch: A Forecast of Technology, Society, and the Coming Generation

The Parallel Bang (The explosive growth of human understanding in the 21st century)