@@r.cdahuman7682 I remember reading these as a kid, so it's really awsome seeing people get into it as a youngish adult. And All Tomorrow's is a really piece of literature and art.
@@_Dovar_ Yup. And they tend to be shortsighted and based on shock value. Like there is no reason why cyborgs would look like Borg. At the time people still dealt with clunky Soviet-style technology, but modern designs tend to be organic and blend with actual biology. Same goes with bioengineery. Even if it can create horrific results. Those are usually mistakes. Robots would be way more capable of common work, with humanity more going into ways of Kaminoan. So practical modifications would include health and what we do consider as arbitral standard of beauty. And not everyone would be fake Brad Pit or Angelina Julee (only most), with yes... some people turning into furry being unavoidable. Though those would be more likely custom cyborgs and not actual hybrids, what are known to be genetically volatile and unstable. And defeat purpose of looking good, not being crypto-canibal. Anyway, intelligence is too powerful tool actually humanity to devolve. In fact data show the opposite, even if stupid people have more to say today thanks to internet. Generally only somewhat unpredictable factor is emergence of gray goo, but even here it actually would repeat same evolutional steps as green and pink goo's. Because in principle it is the same.
*radically and unnatural yet advanced race betrays their post human brethren in a horrific and merciless manner* Gravitals: I don’t see what the issue here is.
I love how this and All Tomorrows Have similar subject matter, but have completely different tones and themes. The future humans were also wildly different.
I got really lucky. A few years ago I bought some nice hardcovers of the Dixon trilogy for about $20 each. The price on all three exploded just after that. "After Man" has come back down since then, but "Man After Man" still runs a couple hundred dollars as you said.
Dougal Dixon also wrote two other related books. “After Man: A Zoology of the Future,” about speculative zoology/evolution, and “The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution,” about what if the “Cretaceous-Palaeogene Extinction Event” hadn't happened.
Reminds me of All Tomorrow’s. If you like this stuff (like me) then you’d enjoy that. It has more of a narrative with twists. I recommend that for another video like this. Great video!
@@mikeunleashed1 sorry that my mild enjoyment of content that was recommended to me because I consume other content such as this wonderful video and more by EckhartsLadder bothers you.
Yeah. Dixon does not seem to have much faith in humanity. Hard to blame him, but it’s like when he wrote this book he had zero hope that humans could ever have a good future.
Christopher Vandenberg, Yeah, I doubt that even something as ruthless as the Imperium of Man could put a stop to evolution, especially on time scales that make the forty first millennium, look like the very near future. Even if we were able to somehow permanently put a stop to all genetic engineering on every single human settlement on every single planet that we settle, that would just delay the inevitable, and if we couldn’t adapt, that would also lead to our extinction.
@@GargamelGold the IOM wouldn't put a stop to evolution or genetic engineering their society is basically built upon it. However any form of mutation that corrupts the holy human form past that of a abhuman or is chaos in origin it's to be purged with fire.
@@GargamelGold Well, humans were becoming more and more psychic even in 40k. Evolution is simply adaptation to the environment based on who gets to breed, it isn’t planned or has an end goal, hence why there are 30 different forms of man in the book. Technology allows us to not have to adapt to anything, just make a gadget. If anything, we will all end up like the fat slobs in Wall-E.
@@Vandelberger, Stopping all genetic mutations is pretty much impossible and as long mutations exist, there will be something for natural selection to act upon and contrary to what some people might think, our technology hasn’t put a stop to human evolution. We are still evolving.
@@NigraeLegiones evolving into a new species usually takes about a million years at a minimum, and the changes would be so slow that I doubt that anyone would notice. In real life a mutations that cause such radical changes in a single generation pretty much do not happen
@@physics_hacker alt-shift-X to my understanding was the channel that started it all he made one video about all tomorrows next thing you know these two books gain rapid popularity and videos and memes pop out like crazy
Well this kind of makes me feel a little better about the current year, at least we aren't half cellphone blobs with very poor social skills, oh wait lmao.
@@dubuyajay9964 Quick "big picture" summary: The Xeelee Sequence is a batch of related novels that take place in a setting where an insanely advanced species (the eponymous Xeelee) are fighting an endless and unwinnable war against an unknowable alien threat nicknamed the "photino birds." The Xeelee have complete mastery over spacetime, going so far as to reverse-engineer themselves 20 billion years earlier than they would have evolved, to buy themselves more time in their war. But they're made of normal matter like you and me. The photino birds are dark matter entities and have an overwhelming material given that normal matter only makes on a small fraction on all matter in the universe. So the Xeelee's ultimate plan isn't to defeat them but to escape from them. The deep space gravitational anomaly we know as the Great Attractor is handiwork in this regard. How much the Xeelee and their war actually matter to the plot of each book varies a lot.
@@Reedstilt and the Human Regime in Xeelee Sequence the Interim Coalition of Governance are so Grimdark they made the Imperium from 40k look like Equestria from MLP.
One concept of human "evolution" that i think is parallel to stuff like Man After Man is the idea of transporting or creating human consciousness inside of a machine. Artificial intelligence that is purpose built to maintain the element of humanity long after those original humans would die off. These machines would have very different requirements than the species presented, and could survive without major alterations for long periods of time. I'm unsure if the same machine would last all 5 million years in the book but if that machine could produce offspring it would likely outlast many of the other human offshoot species.
Thank you for actually analyzing the text and compiling the actual story of the book. Most folk online are just like "look at all these weird illustrations how wacky"
@@Necatuss think it's gonna keep going up in price over the next few year? Or is it just because it's a meme and stuff right now? I checked and it's First Edition First Printing. But maybe all copies are like that
@@MarvinMonroe There was only ever one small, limited first edition run. No other editions have been printed. Though I heard rumors that a second edition for the 40th anniversary might be happening.
@@Necatuss so do you think in 2025 it'll be selling for more than it sells now in 2021? And also, if a 40th anniversary edition comes out in 2030, will that make the original go down in price? I'm just trying to decide what I should do with my copy Edit: btw my grandmother was a rare book dealer. Specialized in children's books. She'd drive all over the US and go to book fairs
This book was so FASCINATING to me when I first discovered it so long ago! It inspired me to write a book series with a similar concept, but going 500 million years into the future. I plan on publishing the first issue in 2025!
@@Exquatics definitely sci-fi! I won’t go too deep into story details, but throughout time when more books are released, the reason why earth is full of animalistic posthumans, and why the humans that went to the stars are enslaved by a malevolent AI will become evermore clear! I’ll let you know when the first one releases! (Most likely will be an E-book at first)
This video really reminds me of BLAME.There's also a movie on Netflix but watching it you only get a small fracture of what you get if you read the manga. It's about a man traveling trough a city in the far future, wich has grown so large that no one knows where or even if it ends. As he travels trough the city he encounters many groups of different races, including relatively normal humans, cyborgs, silicon life forms, AI robots and bio machines. Depending on where these groups live in the city they have adapted different ways of life and evolved in very different ways. It's one of the most interesting manga to read because you aren't told anything, you just have to experience and figure it out yourself. 10/10 would recomend
@@benjamin4267 the opening is very sneaky. once u get past the op, you'd fine a very fine story that ends on a bittersweet note. you should read the manga -- its amazing.
@@condensedman blame is the opposite humanity is not extinct or going there just spread out and there still exit in Large numbers. The main enemy in blame is the silicon life Wich are humans who decided to stop being human
This was a radical departure from your usual vidoes and their topics. I really enjoyed it. G4reat video this time. I wouldn't mind if you did more vidoes such as this one actually. Thank you and have a great day.
I think you knew while making this video that it wasn't exactly going to rake in the views. But for those of us who did watch it, you really opened a door to a foreign and fascinating genre that I'd never encountered before. Appreciate it, Eck!
I see a lot of speculative biology, but to me the best example is Star Wars. I believe that all of those different species from all over are evolved humans who colonized the galaxy. I remember seeing somewhere about millions of years in the future it's possible humanity colonize other planets and evolve to the point they lose contact with other settlements. Then each evolve to adapt to their respective planets, becoming entirely unrecognizable breeds.
My favorite speculative evolution piece is still expedition/alien planet. But given all tomorrows had taken storm i can see that panning out! I’m just one can only imagine what this channel could bring to the table
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 I still have to read that one. Just hadn't gone around yet. Even more so now when C S C. M. Kosemen took inspiration and recommended the expedition creator.
@@thecameraman8648 I don’t blame you, I think it might be out of print and the book itself is pricey last time I checked. All the art and information from the book should very well be online though. I just find it to be the most captivating depiction of alien live i’ve ever seen. All those animal developing such bizarre anatomy snd behavior on their vastly different world, yet it still feel like a functioning ecosystem.
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 i actually tried getting the book one time when i happened to be in a barns and nobles. They sadly didn't have one there. I can definitely find it online or perhaps order the book somewhere.
There's actually a lot of drama surrounding Man After Man. Basically Dixon had a different idea for the book, but his publisher already came up with this idea (some of which were plagiarized from Wayne Barlowe, another speculative evolution artist) and just slapped Dixon's name on it to ride off the popularity of After Man. Dixon hates the book and said he will never have it reprinted again.
The human population has doubled in the last 50 years, and today we are richer, fatter, and more connected than ever. The future is bright, my dudes. We will always adapt, conquer, and thrive 🤴🏻
Our bodies are the problem. We get broken arms from falling out of chair's our bodies have a hard time with diseases and bacteria we run out of energy to fast we constantly need so many things just to keep going we don't have a warning system that tells us what's wrong with us and we still grow old and we still die and that is just some off the stuff we need to fix and eradicate. We REALLY need to improve or our bright future is not going to be that Bright.
@@theunitedcommonwealth715 And that's where bionics comes into play, either they're really subtle for monitoring our bodies and utilizing nanomachines or just placing our brains within a robotic chassis and augmenting the brain itself.
AJM2, I wouldn’t go that far, because there are just some things that even we couldn’t survive. Also, evolution never stops, and we are arrogant if we think that we are suddenly above nature because of our technology and “infinite wisdom.” I mean too many of us still are not taking the threat of climate change seriously.
@@GargamelGold We are the absolute pinnacle of creation, my guy 😁 Not evolved, but created with the express purpose of shepherding this rock and bringing glory to God. We were designed to innovate, explore, and conquer. No stopping it 🤴🏻
I love when Eck goes outside the normal arena and looks at other sci-fi titles. I think a lot of people would love to hear more like this covered on this channel. Maybe a new channel?
I'm going to have to check this out! Sounds like a great book I really love these recommendations. I picked up nightfall after you suggested it and have read it like 3 times already lol!
I remember browsing through this book a few times in my late teens. If you like this sort of thing then I recommend Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men: A story of the near and far future. It was written in the 1930's and it's premise was pretty ahead of it's time. It chronicles the evolution of humans over millions of years into 18 different stages of evolution. There is also some parallel evolution too.
I love this book! Can you cover 'All Tomorrows' at some point? If you like speculative fiction, you'll love this book. It's part study into evolution and genetic manipulation, and part sci fi epic that spans aeons. IT'S SO GOOD!
It's amusing and shows how little all those visionaries actually understood that all of them were worried about overcrowding the planet when it has become pretty clear at this point that population will plateau before decreasing somewhat again.
Wrong at the start. Parallel evolution is not about one species taking many different paths. Parallel evolution is multiple unrelated species coming up with the same solution.
Funny you did this one, I found a free copy on a website and spent months reading it off and on. It gets pretty nuts, I'm particularly a fan of what happens to Grassland and Aquamarine humans.
This is just as horrifying as I imagined. Thanks for this! Humans are so interesting so thinking about our future is so strange, as we will never get to see it but they will look back on us and think we are weird.
1:10, well I’d say the technology to save the environment is there, but in man after man they haven’t discovered or used it. IDK if it has a message against over reliance on technology, I didn’t get that out of the book, and I’d say technology isn’t a problem regardless of how much it plays into our lives, so I don’t think there is an over reliance (at least in most cases). Also maybe you could also do a video on All Tomorrow’s as well, that’s another good book.
I used to own "After Man A Zoology of The Future" in the 90s (Still got my copy) but never knew of the other two books until very recently, a shame i never had them either. This book eerily resembles Frank Herbert's "Dune" in all of his human alterations. Especially the vacuumorph.
I find this interesting as a Christian too, mostly as a reader of C.S Lewis’s abolition of man. These strange forms may longer be called humans in a biological sense, but I wonder if the part which actually matters, the part that actually makes us human, really changed? Are we still Fallen?
"I don't know if you know this, but me and the entire internet have read this book called all tomorrows, i'm going to recommend this to you and assume you dont know about it despite the fact you just reviewed man after man, as thats not a coincidence at all"
@@physics_hacker since alt shift x made the video, the popularity has exploded, so every other youtuber reviewing it seems like a copy to me, at least man after man is something different.
Speculative human evolution is weirdly popular right now, and I love it.
Speculative evolution in general is honestly awesome.
All tomorrow's is always really good, so is after man.
@@_Dovar_ what are you talking about.
@@r.cdahuman7682 I remember reading these as a kid, so it's really awsome seeing people get into it as a youngish adult. And All Tomorrow's is a really piece of literature and art.
Dovar lolwut
@@_Dovar_ Yup. And they tend to be shortsighted and based on shock value. Like there is no reason why cyborgs would look like Borg. At the time people still dealt with clunky Soviet-style technology, but modern designs tend to be organic and blend with actual biology. Same goes with bioengineery. Even if it can create horrific results. Those are usually mistakes. Robots would be way more capable of common work, with humanity more going into ways of Kaminoan. So practical modifications would include health and what we do consider as arbitral standard of beauty. And not everyone would be fake Brad Pit or Angelina Julee (only most), with yes... some people turning into furry being unavoidable. Though those would be more likely custom cyborgs and not actual hybrids, what are known to be genetically volatile and unstable. And defeat purpose of looking good, not being crypto-canibal. Anyway, intelligence is too powerful tool actually humanity to devolve. In fact data show the opposite, even if stupid people have more to say today thanks to internet. Generally only somewhat unpredictable factor is emergence of gray goo, but even here it actually would repeat same evolutional steps as green and pink goo's. Because in principle it is the same.
*radically and unnatural yet advanced race betrays their post human brethren in a horrific and merciless manner*
Gravitals: I don’t see what the issue here is.
Fucking floating tar balls
Racist Necron Balls
And the asymmetrical people did the same to the lopsiders.
🎳
Levitating bowling ball looking headasses
“Forced to rely on genetic engineering”
Kaminoans: first time?
mwahaha
same format every time
The Qu:
Boba Jango
I’m ded 💀
It's always just so lovely looking over pics of the grandkids. ❤️
Lmao
Indeed ! I just love to see the old pictures of the family
😀😃😄😁😆
They grow up so fast😭
Wait a damn minute
I love how this and All Tomorrows Have similar subject matter, but have completely different tones and themes.
The future humans were also wildly different.
The author did also influenced by Man after Man and the Fall of Roman Empire book so yeah.
This book is incredibly rare. Getting it from a library may prove difficult, and the cheapest copy is about $500 US
Oh man, I own a copy, maybe I should sell it now.
That's why PDF is the third most popular religion.
I got really lucky. A few years ago I bought some nice hardcovers of the Dixon trilogy for about $20 each. The price on all three exploded just after that. "After Man" has come back down since then, but "Man After Man" still runs a couple hundred dollars as you said.
Reedstilt I Think After Man was reprinted a few years ago (it is Dixon's most famous work apart from the Future Is Wild Franchise).
Interesting! I've still got my got copy my grandmother gave me for Christmas 1990. I was 11 years old
Oh yes, the origin of the “Season Greetings” meme
SEASONS GREASONS
SEASONS GREASONS
SEASONS GREASONS
SEASONS GREASONS
SEASONS GREASONS
Dougal Dixon also wrote two other related books. “After Man: A Zoology of the Future,” about speculative zoology/evolution, and “The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution,” about what if the “Cretaceous-Palaeogene Extinction Event” hadn't happened.
Don't forget "The Future Is Wild."
@@dubuyajay9964 Did he wrote that? I believe someone else wrote the future is wild.
@@hoominbeeing Check the credits, Dixon was involved. Can't remember if he was a sole writer or on a team/staff.
Reminds me of All Tomorrow’s. If you like this stuff (like me) then you’d enjoy that. It has more of a narrative with twists. I recommend that for another video like this. Great video!
Feels like the entire internet has seen and is recommending all tomorrows at this point. Its getting a bit cringe seeing these comments tbh.
@@mikeunleashed1 sorry that my mild enjoyment of content that was recommended to me because I consume other content such as this wonderful video and more by EckhartsLadder bothers you.
Yup
@@aidanbove231 acknowledgement extends the problem. Ignore hate.
@@mikeunleashed1ooooops, sorry! I liked your comment before I read the end. I'll just take that riiiiight back...
This kind of artwork is always so disturbing but interesting at the same time.
We look like pure shit in the future according to this guy's imagination.
Maybe to future us we look like pure shit. Just a point of perspective
@@todbaner3385
More like being contrarian just for the sake of it.
Yeah. Dixon does not seem to have much faith in humanity. Hard to blame him, but it’s like when he wrote this book he had zero hope that humans could ever have a good future.
Pssssshhh we look like pure shit right now lol
@@andrewfrankovic6821 You could put it simply and say we're the Chads of The Powerstride(tm)
This was one of the most interesting videos I’ve seen recently, 10/10 man
(after man)
My first exposure to Man After Man is the "Season's Greetings" meme at 3:06
Now do All Tomorrows, another Speculative Evolution book
Omg it's that shard of the Emperor who is always on Remleiz videos.
SEASONS GREASONS
All tomorrows comment number 1029
Could you look at "all tomorrows" next? It's a similar concept but I like it a bit more lol
Yes please
Definitely agree with this!
G R A V I T A L
SNAKE PEOPLE SUPREMACY
No
Mutants taking over the sacred human gene pool? The inquisition would like to talk to you.
Christopher Vandenberg,
Yeah, I doubt that even something as ruthless as the Imperium of Man could put a stop to evolution, especially on time scales that make the forty first millennium, look like the very near future. Even if we were able to somehow permanently put a stop to all genetic engineering on every single human settlement on every single planet that we settle, that would just delay the inevitable, and if we couldn’t adapt, that would also lead to our extinction.
@@GargamelGold the IOM wouldn't put a stop to evolution or genetic engineering their society is basically built upon it. However any form of mutation that corrupts the holy human form past that of a abhuman or is chaos in origin it's to be purged with fire.
@@GargamelGold Well, humans were becoming more and more psychic even in 40k. Evolution is simply adaptation to the environment based on who gets to breed, it isn’t planned or has an end goal, hence why there are 30 different forms of man in the book. Technology allows us to not have to adapt to anything, just make a gadget. If anything, we will all end up like the fat slobs in Wall-E.
@@Vandelberger,
Stopping all genetic mutations is pretty much impossible and as long mutations exist, there will be something for natural selection to act upon and contrary to what some people might think, our technology hasn’t put a stop to human evolution. We are still evolving.
@@NigraeLegiones evolving into a new species usually takes about a million years at a minimum, and the changes would be so slow that I doubt that anyone would notice. In real life a mutations that cause such radical changes in a single generation pretty much do not happen
The vacuumorph probably freaks me out the most, especially with the inside look still containing a somewhat human skeleton.
Personally I find them one of the cutest (mostly because they don’t have a face
Holy crap. Dougal Dixon. The elementary school nostalgia hits hard.
Ponies After Ponies? X_x
@@dubuyajay9964 When the fanfic droppin
He ripped off this idea from Wayne Barlowe.
@@landryprichard6778 Wym?
@@landryprichard6778 I'm curious too. Barlowe's Guide to ETs was great
This makes me feel so uncomfortable but yet this is so interesting to learn about.
Is it weird that I ended up searching the channel for an all tomorrows video.
I hope he does one, I learned about it from Alt-shift-Xs video on it but I'd love to see Eck do an episode on it.
@@physics_hacker alt-shift-X to my understanding was the channel that started it all he made one video about all tomorrows next thing you know these two books gain rapid popularity and videos and memes pop out like crazy
@@hoopsonwheels Makes sense
It's gonna be the same things all other channels are doing, the descriptions are too small.
Only a matter of time before the All Tomorrows wave reaches Eck as well
Well this kind of makes me feel a little better about the current year, at least we aren't half cellphone blobs with very poor social skills, oh wait lmao.
I take offense to that lmao
Better that than dead. I'd prefer this over the current situation.
Evolve to B L O B
You got the "poor social skills" part right
Atleast we aren’t colonials like cubes of meat and skin
My two favorite elder stage humans would be:
the asteromorphs(all tommorows)
The Transcendence humanity(xeelee)
Xeelee?
@@dubuyajay9964 Quick "big picture" summary: The Xeelee Sequence is a batch of related novels that take place in a setting where an insanely advanced species (the eponymous Xeelee) are fighting an endless and unwinnable war against an unknowable alien threat nicknamed the "photino birds." The Xeelee have complete mastery over spacetime, going so far as to reverse-engineer themselves 20 billion years earlier than they would have evolved, to buy themselves more time in their war. But they're made of normal matter like you and me. The photino birds are dark matter entities and have an overwhelming material given that normal matter only makes on a small fraction on all matter in the universe. So the Xeelee's ultimate plan isn't to defeat them but to escape from them. The deep space gravitational anomaly we know as the Great Attractor is handiwork in this regard.
How much the Xeelee and their war actually matter to the plot of each book varies a lot.
Based Xeeleeposter.
@@Reedstilt and the Human Regime in Xeelee Sequence the Interim Coalition of Governance are so Grimdark they made the Imperium from 40k look like Equestria from MLP.
Glad to see you covering Man After Man, I've always felt it's one of the more interesting speculative evolution books
I love these one off sci-fi/fantasy dives you do. I so often find more and more things to add to my reading list.
One concept of human "evolution" that i think is parallel to stuff like Man After Man is the idea of transporting or creating human consciousness inside of a machine. Artificial intelligence that is purpose built to maintain the element of humanity long after those original humans would die off. These machines would have very different requirements than the species presented, and could survive without major alterations for long periods of time. I'm unsure if the same machine would last all 5 million years in the book but if that machine could produce offspring it would likely outlast many of the other human offshoot species.
Gravital
Altered Carbon
reminds me of Soma.
Speculative evolution is an incredibly interesting subject, thx for covering this masterpiece
I Saw a documentary about that when I was a kid, impressive
@@danilima6970 same
@@danilima6970 the future is wild
I hope that God saves us
This has to be one of the most uncanny things I’ve seen
Thank you for actually analyzing the text and compiling the actual story of the book. Most folk online are just like "look at all these weird illustrations how wacky"
Wecxy
It's hard to look at them without saying how wacky they are.
Just casually recommends one of the most rare, and hard to find books that is often sold at prices exceeding a grand.
Wow crazy I had no idea. I've had it ever since I was 11 when grandmother gave it to me for Christmas 1990
@@MarvinMonroe I'll gladly take it off your hands ahahah
@@Necatuss think it's gonna keep going up in price over the next few year? Or is it just because it's a meme and stuff right now? I checked and it's First Edition First Printing. But maybe all copies are like that
@@MarvinMonroe There was only ever one small, limited first edition run. No other editions have been printed. Though I heard rumors that a second edition for the 40th anniversary might be happening.
@@Necatuss so do you think in 2025 it'll be selling for more than it sells now in 2021? And also, if a 40th anniversary edition comes out in 2030, will that make the original go down in price?
I'm just trying to decide what I should do with my copy
Edit: btw my grandmother was a rare book dealer. Specialized in children's books. She'd drive all over the US and go to book fairs
Love this kind of content. Hope Eck does a video on All Tomorrows, a similar book. Great video.
This book was so FASCINATING to me when I first discovered it so long ago!
It inspired me to write a book series with a similar concept, but going 500 million years into the future.
I plan on publishing the first issue in 2025!
Pog man, what is your books theme?
That’s amazing! Remind me about this later when you’re finished writing it
@@Exquatics definitely sci-fi!
I won’t go too deep into story details, but throughout time when more books are released, the reason why earth is full of animalistic posthumans, and why the humans that went to the stars are enslaved by a malevolent AI will become evermore clear!
I’ll let you know when the first one releases! (Most likely will be an E-book at first)
@@burningwolf_9641 hell yeah I will! It’s in just 2 short years!
Here to get notified
This could be a great animated movie.
Yes it could
No. Please no.
Like we need more depressing material...
@@nobodyherepal3292 Y E S
@@Berserker3624 Never enough material that reminds us that the planet's slowly dying and that our only hope is space travel lol.
The cousin to All Tomorrows
Never in my life would I think to see eck do man after man…. But I’m happy that he did. ( also eck should do all tomorrow’s)
I’m so glad this book is finally getting popular
I have had this book since I was 10. It is and always has been one of my, if not my absolute favorite book. It is insanely expensive now though.
„Hey Jeff turned himself into a bdsm Ninja funniest shit I have ever seen“
This video really reminds me of BLAME.There's also a movie on Netflix but watching it you only get a small fracture of what you get if you read the manga.
It's about a man traveling trough a city in the far future, wich has grown so large that no one knows where or even if it ends. As he travels trough the city he encounters many groups of different races, including relatively normal humans, cyborgs, silicon life forms, AI robots and bio machines. Depending on where these groups live in the city they have adapted different ways of life and evolved in very different ways.
It's one of the most interesting manga to read because you aren't told anything, you just have to experience and figure it out yourself.
10/10 would recomend
sounds a lot like girls last tour
@@condensedman ok either I made a really bad description of blame or girls last tour is nothing like its opening
@@benjamin4267 the opening is very sneaky. once u get past the op, you'd fine a very fine story that ends on a bittersweet note. you should read the manga -- its amazing.
@@Y3M37H blame
@@condensedman blame is the opposite humanity is not extinct or going there just spread out and there still exit in Large numbers. The main enemy in blame is the silicon life Wich are humans who decided to stop being human
This was a radical departure from your usual vidoes and their topics. I really enjoyed it. G4reat video this time. I wouldn't mind if you did more vidoes such as this one actually. Thank you and have a great day.
I think you knew while making this video that it wasn't exactly going to rake in the views. But for those of us who did watch it, you really opened a door to a foreign and fascinating genre that I'd never encountered before. Appreciate it, Eck!
Thanks my nightmares needed new imagery.
I have no mouth and I must scream
That level of terrifying 😂
Man, you know there were human rights movements for Aquamorphs and those space ball bois I forgot the name of
I see a lot of speculative biology, but to me the best example is Star Wars. I believe that all of those different species from all over are evolved humans who colonized the galaxy. I remember seeing somewhere about millions of years in the future it's possible humanity colonize other planets and evolve to the point they lose contact with other settlements. Then each evolve to adapt to their respective planets, becoming entirely unrecognizable breeds.
Plot twist. This isn't about our future. Its about our past.
Adam Sunderland,
How so?
Bruh
As it was, as it is, and as it will be.
What’s up Heero
I hate that thought so much
"Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore the galaxy
But definely better than being one of those walking dungs
Imagine humans still looking like us now discovering this 5 million years later
I like Dixon. Life after Man, and his dinosaur book are also good.
Don't forget "The Future Is Wild"
@@thecryptile Didn't know about that one. Just bought it, thanks.👍
This books feels like it was written by a person who had just heard of evolution
damnn
I'm so glad you've covered this!!
SPECULATIVE evolution. LETS GO. Hope this opens the door to talking about All Tommarow's.
My favorite speculative evolution piece is still expedition/alien planet. But given all tomorrows had taken storm i can see that panning out! I’m just one can only imagine what this channel could bring to the table
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 I still have to read that one. Just hadn't gone around yet. Even more so now when C S C. M. Kosemen took inspiration and recommended the expedition creator.
@@thecameraman8648 I don’t blame you, I think it might be out of print and the book itself is pricey last time I checked. All the art and information from the book should very well be online though. I just find it to be the most captivating depiction of alien live i’ve ever seen. All those animal developing such bizarre anatomy snd behavior on their vastly different world, yet it still feel like a functioning ecosystem.
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 i actually tried getting the book one time when i happened to be in a barns and nobles. They sadly didn't have one there. I can definitely find it online or perhaps order the book somewhere.
There's actually a lot of drama surrounding Man After Man. Basically Dixon had a different idea for the book, but his publisher already came up with this idea (some of which were plagiarized from Wayne Barlowe, another speculative evolution artist) and just slapped Dixon's name on it to ride off the popularity of After Man. Dixon hates the book and said he will never have it reprinted again.
The human population has doubled in the last 50 years, and today we are richer, fatter, and more connected than ever. The future is bright, my dudes. We will always adapt, conquer, and thrive 🤴🏻
Our bodies are the problem.
We get broken arms from falling out of chair's our bodies have a hard time with diseases and bacteria we run out of energy to fast we constantly need so many things just to keep going we don't have a warning system that tells us what's wrong with us and we still grow old and we still die and that is just some off the stuff we need to fix and eradicate.
We REALLY need to improve or our bright future is not going to be that Bright.
@@theunitedcommonwealth715 And that's where bionics comes into play, either they're really subtle for monitoring our bodies and utilizing nanomachines or just placing our brains within a robotic chassis and augmenting the brain itself.
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I wouldn’t go that far, because there are just some things that even we couldn’t survive. Also, evolution never stops, and we are arrogant if we think that we are suddenly above nature because of our technology and “infinite wisdom.” I mean too many of us still are not taking the threat of climate change seriously.
@@GargamelGold We are the absolute pinnacle of creation, my guy 😁 Not evolved, but created with the express purpose of shepherding this rock and bringing glory to God. We were designed to innovate, explore, and conquer. No stopping it 🤴🏻
- Humans destroy Earth:
- Leave
- Come back completely different, probably not even knowing they're native there.
- Destroy Earth again
- Leave
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I love when Eck goes outside the normal arena and looks at other sci-fi titles. I think a lot of people would love to hear more like this covered on this channel. Maybe a new channel?
5.47. Now we know what Abzorbaloff was...and Lady Kassandra was close to point 5 billion years from now.
In addition to man after man, I couldn’t recommend “All Tomorrow’s” enough
that artwork looks amazing.
Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future is a great book.
Would definitely recommend All Tomorrow's for another video.
It's been a favorite of mine since I first read it.
I'm going to have to check this out! Sounds like a great book I really love these recommendations. I picked up nightfall after you suggested it and have read it like 3 times already lol!
I remember browsing through this book a few times in my late teens. If you like this sort of thing then I recommend Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men: A story of the near and far future. It was written in the 1930's and it's premise was pretty ahead of it's time. It chronicles the evolution of humans over millions of years into 18 different stages of evolution. There is also some parallel evolution too.
An animated show about this would be horrifying but extremely interesting
“Blessed holidays
...for unto us a child is born”
Or so that evolutionary meme goes from this book. Lel.
It is. And the one where the "yetis" are killing each other.
Season's Greason's
@@trollerpilotxiv3079 Season's Greasings. 🦍🦧🎄🎅
I love this book! Can you cover 'All Tomorrows' at some point? If you like speculative fiction, you'll love this book. It's part study into evolution and genetic manipulation, and part sci fi epic that spans aeons. IT'S SO GOOD!
It's amusing and shows how little all those visionaries actually understood that all of them were worried about overcrowding the planet when it has become pretty clear at this point that population will plateau before decreasing somewhat again.
Watched all tomorrow's and back for round 2
Well. I didn’t need to sleep tonight anyway.
Wow and third 🥉, wish for video about how the GTU from the Templin Institute invade plus takeover the Star Wars galaxy
4:41 bro has the entire concept of cooking and baking in there 💀
Wrong at the start.
Parallel evolution is not about one species taking many different paths.
Parallel evolution is multiple unrelated species coming up with the same solution.
C R A B
That’s convergent evolution
@@doyouseetorpedoboats8893 yeah like birds, bats and insects all evolving flight.
What he means is divergent evolution
@@justinthompson6364 no, that’s insurgent evolution. You’re thinking of detergent evolution which is when order evolved out of chaos.
Please do all tomorrows, and after man
Funny you did this one, I found a free copy on a website and spent months reading it off and on. It gets pretty nuts, I'm particularly a fan of what happens to Grassland and Aquamarine humans.
This is just as horrifying as I imagined. Thanks for this! Humans are so interesting so thinking about our future is so strange, as we will never get to see it but they will look back on us and think we are weird.
1:10, well I’d say the technology to save the environment is there, but in man after man they haven’t discovered or used it.
IDK if it has a message against over reliance on technology, I didn’t get that out of the book, and I’d say technology isn’t a problem regardless of how much it plays into our lives, so I don’t think there is an over reliance (at least in most cases).
Also maybe you could also do a video on All Tomorrow’s as well, that’s another good book.
Echkart's Ladder talking about Man After Man? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Greg Bear's Eon series has a neat take on humans a million years in the future
Awesome, I should look that up. I just finished "The City At the End of Time".
I used to own "After Man A Zoology of The Future" in the 90s (Still got my copy) but never knew of the other two books until very recently, a shame i never had them either. This book eerily resembles Frank Herbert's "Dune" in all of his human alterations. Especially the vacuumorph.
I always wondered what happened to the artist from “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.” Glad to see he’s still got work.
That was Dougal Dixon?
@@dubuyajay9964 Dixon was not the artist.
That was Stephen Gammel,not Dougal Dixon
Got this book for my birthday when I was around 8. I always thought the Desert Runner was the coolest and the Vacuumorph never made any sense to me.
Speculative zoology is awesome. I'd recommend Ben G Thomas's trio of video's on the subject if anyone's interested in learning more.
This is a good book to read if you would like to notch your nightmares up from Scary to Terrifying. Good luck.
So glad that you covered this, I think you'd also enjoy Serina, which is how canaries could evolve and thrive on a terraformed moon.
Canary:can I copy your homework
Sauropod:sure but just change it a bit
Canary:turns into boomsinger
My daughter's childhood memories were ful of this book and it took me years to find it. Thank you!
Video Idea: Commando Droids vs ODSTs(Star Wars vs Halo)
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As a christian I found this interesting in how people find these things out but this would be cool if this where a movie
I find this interesting as a Christian too, mostly as a reader of C.S Lewis’s abolition of man. These strange forms may longer be called humans in a biological sense, but I wonder if the part which actually matters, the part that actually makes us human, really changed?
Are we still Fallen?
😂😂Whut.
@@mike-0451 if one believes in a soul one must consider, does the soul evolve with the body or does it remain absolute?
@@The_Sharktocrab The soul is immortal.
@@mike-0451 dodged the question
I'm glad you're covering this now. Dougle Dixons works are awesome and you should check out some of his other books if you liked this one.
This was very cool
"Get it at your library" a book thats worth $400 and highly sought after physically
That's nice book, but spoiled by:
1. Telepathic
2. Unrealistic ending
3. "memory people"
Great song choice for your intro, great video btw.
This is all wrong, we all know that we will just evolve into crabs
Love this topic, have done lots of research on it! Thanks for the video!
"I don't know if you know this, but me and the entire internet have read this book called all tomorrows, i'm going to recommend this to you and assume you dont know about it despite the fact you just reviewed man after man, as thats not a coincidence at all"
Is it that popular? i hadn't heard of it until, A;t-Shift-X did a video on it and youtube recommended the video.
@@physics_hacker since alt shift x made the video, the popularity has exploded, so every other youtuber reviewing it seems like a copy to me, at least man after man is something different.
@@physics_hacker i hope that guy does man after man, i love how he did the all tomorrows one
If this book is about the future of earth, then book me on the next flight out of here.
5:45 How aliens would deal with Nikocado Avocado
I've found it... the origin of the "Season's greasons" meme...
1:03 they look so terrified :(
playlist goes crazyyy