Presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system. This book introduces two new author's ideas. It gives his reflections on how scientific advances are made, and his own remarkable life as a lone scientist.

A radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system, influential 95-year-old James Lovelock, credited as 'the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on Earth since Charles Darwin' "Independent". Introduces two new Lovelockian ideas.