Bøger af David Millett

Two massive and ruthless companies, the Dane Corporation and Norge Industries, are at war. The head of the Dane Corporation, President and CEO Hamlet Dane has died unexpectedly. His brother Claud Dane has taken control of the company and married his brother's wife. Hamlet's daughter Femlet Dane was being groomed by her father to become the CEO of the company, but her uncle has other plans. An inward morose woman everyone assumed this was just the way she was, but she has a dark secret. She is devastated at the unexpected death of her beloved father and incensed over her mother's marriage to her uncle. Her hatred turns into rage and she slowly descends into madness.

Throughout the known history of humanity, we have believed in supernatural beings. Archaeologists have found apparent intentional burial sites from as early as three hundred thousand years ago, which they have interpreted as evidence of religious ideas. At African sites, that date back to the Middle Stone Age, archaeologists have discovered symbolic artifacts, which also support the notion that humans were engaged in religious thinking. Today most of the seven billion humans on our planet still believe in supernatural beings and stories. The more than two billion Christians and the nearly two billion Muslims are unmistakable evidence that our twenty-first-century world is as religious as it has ever been. But what if there was no religion? What if everyone used the scientific method of establishing truth? What if human greed could be curtailed? What would our world look like then? This book "The Cure" explores these questions.

The inspiration for the book came from the following quote by Charles Darwin: "Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress." An extraterrestrial computer intelligence (the Vessel) arrives in Earth's orbit. It plugs into, and takes control of all, human telecommunication systems. The Vessel seems benign and offers all its knowledge to everyone for free. The Vessel's knowledge fast-forwards human technology. We benefit, yet the very future of humanity is at risk. Homo Cosmiens is a journey into Earth's future. Will any part of our humanity survive? By taking us to a future utopian world the book holds up a mirror to Homo sapiens, for us to examine who we are through the adventures of a new species on Earth: the Homo cosmiens.

The unexpected discovery of a frozen corpse at the North Pole brings back a giant, hideous, and mysterious creature from the past to present-day California. When the awful thing unexpectedly reawakens from its icy grave it begins a new life in our world. The Creature tells an exciting, knuckle biting story of this reawakened creature's introduction into a contemporary world. The story explores a modern response to a pseudo human-being. Science is fascinated, greed is motivated, and yet fundamental human traits such as kindness and disgust flow through the story. Are we any better than we were 200 years ago? What benefits has science brought to our social interactions? Who are we, and what differences are we willing to accept? This imaginative story is scary, fascinating, and raises difficult to answer questions about the very core of what it is to be human.

Enjoy colorful and thought provoking art from the digital artist, filmmaker, and author David Millett. There really is a joy in attempting to express yourself via paint, color, lines, textures, and brushes. It is a cleansing and therapeutic feeling. The emotional dimension of painting is hard to understand, but it is very enjoyable.

We live in unusual times. When I was a child the stories I saw and read insisted that we had rid the world of fascism, bigotry, and hate. Yet today these things, and much worse, are still with us. What is the root cause behind humankind's constant repeating of our historical mistakes?This is the question this book attempts to answer.The erudite Howard Zinn, in his master work: 'A People's History of the United States' summed up how insidious this question is."One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth. We have learned to give them exactly the same proportion of attention that teachers and writers often give them in the most respectable of classrooms and textbooks. This learned sense of moral proportion, coming from the apparent objectivity of the scholar, is accepted more easily than when it comes from politicians at press conferences. It is therefore more deadly." This book looks to us, humanity, to find the root cause of the behaviors that have led us to our current existential crisis. In attempting to elucidate this question the book also presents, potential solutions, that just might avert the demise of human civilization.

Second Edition If we are unable to limit, in a humane and intelligent way, the world's human populations we will not escape our history of growth and collapse. And the next collapse will be like no other. It will not be restricted to the remote Easter Island. It will not give us the chance to expand to another area as with the collapse of the Samarian civilization. The next collapse will be a worldwide one, epic in proportion, and perhaps the final one for the human race. However, if some of us do make it through this global downfall what will our descendants find in the geological record. Surely they will discover that the Anthropocene was a time of human dominance of the world, a time where humans held all the cards, a time when we could have stopped the cycle of growth and collapse, but a time that proved the human species was not intelligent enough to do so. Perhaps, in the future our descendants will look back at the Anthropocene and rename it from: "the age of man" to: "the age of very, very, stupid men".