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On the rolling Saskatchewan prairie, about 70 miles east of the city of Saskatoon, sits the pleasant community of Humboldt, population: 6,000. It was here that in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a remarkable scientist conducted an equally remarkable experiment, the results of which have impacted many communities around the world.

Can a surplus of gasoline hurt as much as a shortage?

Are you a pessimist, or a realist? Or should you simply stop worrying?

Will machine intelligence revolutionize human civilization—or bring it to the brink of destruction? What does the future portend for mankind?

From ancient Babylon to modern Europe, 6,000 years of civilization have seen the ebb and flow of once-great and newly great world powers—with one prophesied yet to come.