No Claws, No Wings, No Limits: A History of Human Ingenuity, from the First Stone Tool to Artificial Intelligence

Pachauri, Anoop

ISBN 13: 9798172927621

Edité par Independently published, 2026

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• Titre: No Claws, No Wings, No Limits: A History of Human Ingenuity, from the First Stone Tool to Artificial Intelligence
• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date de parution: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9798172927621
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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NO CLAWS. NO WINGS. NO GREAT SPEED OR STRENGTH. YET WE CHANGED THE WORLD.

What gave humanity the power to rise above creatures that were faster, stronger, better armed, and better equipped for survival?

It wasn't claws. It wasn't wings. It wasn't muscle.

It was the ability to ask a question—and refuse to stop looking for an answer.

No Claws, No Wings, No Limit takes you on an extraordinary journey through the story of human ingenuity: from a primitive stone tool to writing, from the printing press to the scientific revolution, from steam power to electricity, from the discovery of DNA to the computer—and finally to the astonishing frontier of artificial intelligence.

But this is not a catalogue of inventions.

It is the story of the problems behind the inventions.

How could a dying human memory preserve knowledge?
How could one idea reach thousands of minds?
How could we distinguish truth from authority?
How could human muscle be replaced by mechanical power?
How could invisible electricity be captured and transported?
How could the information of life itself be read?
And now: can machines process information—and perhaps intelligence—on our behalf?

Across ancient Mesopotamia, India, Europe, and the modern technological world, this book follows one remarkable pattern: every breakthrough solves an old problem while creating a new and harder one.

Writing preserved knowledge—but concentrated power.
Printing multiplied knowledge—but also multiplied misinformation.
Industrial machines amplified human strength—but brought enormous social and environmental costs.
Electricity transformed civilisation—but its benefits remain unevenly distributed.
Computers transformed information—but raised new questions about privacy, bias, reliability, and responsibility.

And now artificial intelligence forces the oldest question of all into a new age:

Now that we can—should we? And who gets to decide?

Written with an evidence-based spirit and a global perspective, No Claws, No Wings — Yet a Champion connects archaeology, history, science, philosophy, technology, and ethics into one sweeping narrative.

From flint to silicon, this is the story of humanity's greatest invention:

the habit of imagining what does not yet exist—and trying to build it.

And the next chapter of that story may be yours.