Next Exit Future. Stories from a Changing World

In his new book, Ranga Yogeshwar takes a look at our rapidly changing world from his very distinctive point of view. Leaps in innovation are often synonymous with crises. At the moment, we are in the midst of an epochal shift similar to when the Renaissance superseded the Middle Ages or modernity shook the bourgeoisie. Yet we often look at the new with old eyes and fail to see that progress is also changing us. For Ranga Yogeshwar, his own direct experiences are decisive. And so he reports on his visits to a cloning lab in South Korea, a wildlife release station in Sumatra, underground ice caves on Spitsbergen and the ruined atomic plants in Fukushima. In a self-experiment, he tests how others can listen in on us using an “infected” cell phone. Or else remembers how his Indian grandfather introduced the first mobile library to give people access to the treasures of knowledge from the past. Experiences, experiments and memories like these inspire him to think actively and critically about our changing world and to understand progress in its larger context.