Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and our greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the hidden battle to control them will determine our future.

The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grid, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information—what Ed Conway calls "the ethereal world"—our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material.

Author: Ed Conway

Publisher: WH Allen

Released Date: 2024

ISBN: 9780753559178