Carl sagan pale blue dot book

What does it mean to remake a world you can barely comprehend Whose flaws and dreams should shape this murky future In the series second installment societies have crystallized into factions with widely differing levels of technology standards of living and visions for the future There exists a utopia of machines impossibly sophisticated and autonomous a high tech society of their closest human allies a grittier belligerent nation suspicious and envious of both and other lands where the shine of modernity either never reached or has gently faded over time In these fragments of possibility the people share a disenchantment with their lots their neighbors and their lives They seek significance in a world that demands but rarely reveals truth With heart and wisdom Pale Blue The People continues to trace the hidden currents and fateful encounters of individuals standing at the borders between communities ways of life and even entire worlds Pale Blue Dot The People