Prologue
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
—Mark Twain
In Jared Diamond’s book Guns, Germs and Steel, the protagonist, the New Guinea chieftain Yali, asks a question regarding the relative inequity in the distribution of "cargo" around the world. How come Europe and the Americas had so much "cargo" and the New Guineans so little? We all originated from the tribes that survived the ice ages some 11,000 years ago. Diamond’s book attempted to answer that question. In a sense, this book builds on Guns, Germs and Steel or maybe even the subsequent book by Diamond titled Collapse. We are setting the stage for a selfish question: What changes are coming down the pike that we as ...
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