‘Asia Emerging’: The Director’s Cut

Having had time to decompress from their exhausting Asian trip, Gregory and Elisabeth Benford have revised and enlarged the account of their travels that Centauri Dreams published in late March. The text contains numerous additional insights, but what makes this revision truly stand out from the original post are the photographs, fully seven times the number first published, each illustrating a unique facet of their journey. I’ve inserted the new Asia Emerging in the archives. Don’t miss its unforgettable images and insights into a part of the world that will have much to say about our future on this planet. I told Gregory that my favorite photograph is the one of him at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, Singapore Sling in hand. Shades of Somerset Maugham…