Table of Contents
Seeking the future /George V. Coyne --Far, far future /John D. Barrow --Eternity /Paul Davies --Time of the universe /Michael Heller --Living in a multiverse /Martin J. Rees --Exotic genetic materials and the extent of life in the universe /A. Graham Cairns-Smith --Time without end /Freeman J. Dyson --Life in the universe /Freeman J. Dyson --Does biology have an eschatology, and if so dies it have cosmological implications? /Simon Conway-Morris --Deep times /Stephen R.L. Clark --Games that end in a bang or a whimper /Steven J. Brams and D. Marc Kilgour --Artificial intelligence and the far future /Margaret A. Boden --Cosmic eschatology versus human eschatology /Owen Gingerich --Cosmotology and religious ideas about the end of the world /Keith Ward --Cosmos and theosis /Jèurgen Moltmann --Eschatology and physical cosmology /Robert John Russell --Natures of existance /George F.R. Ellis.