Firing the Cloud: How Humanity Survived and Accelerated
About this audiobook
From the first spark of fire to the cloud servers that hold our collective memory, Firing the Cloud takes listeners on an extraordinary journey through 15,000 years of human history. This book explores how each great transition hunter-gatherer, agricultural, industrial and technological reshaped our minds, our societies and our destiny.
Blending anthropology, history and philosophy, we examine what we gained and what we sacrificed as humanity accelerated. Are we living wiser lives or merely faster ones? And how can we carry forward the resilience, creativity and wisdom of past generations to build a future worth inhabiting?
About the author
Ylia Callan is a writer, researcher and independent thinker focused on the intersection of technology, history and human resilience. With a background in philosophy and systems analysis, Ylia explores how societies adapt under pressure and how innovation shapes culture and consciousness. Firing the Cloud is a culmination of years of research into the deep history of humanity, the challenges of acceleration and the possibilities of a more balanced, humane future.
