Journey to 2125: One Century, One Family, Rising to Challenges The story of a family facing our future It's 2125 when a long-separated grandson suddenly arrives on his doorstep looking for answers. Max MacGyver retells their family story and secrets, revealing a century of challenges that they've faced. Journey to 2125 is one family's touching story, across generations, of adventure, rivalry, loss, survival, and resilience. This is the story of a family facing our future. A small boy escapes war in Asia. A young woman flees catastrophe driven by climate change in Africa. Some family members build technology companies, while others deal with the trauma of jobs lost to automation. A young couple fight for privacy and democracy. Lives are positively transformed by biomedical science and threatened by it. At its heart, Journey to 2125 is the story, told over a single day, of a young boy and his grandfather. Why did his parents decide to move to the Commune? What family secrets will his grandfather share? Parts political drama, family saga, and hard-science speculative fiction, Journey to 2125 is the story of how humankind might collectively weather the tragedy and chaos that we can expect from accelerating change. What will it feel like to live during these next one hundred years? Take this journey with Max MacGyver and his grandson, as they reveal their family history, and the road ahead for you and yours. "Sweeping, humane speculative fiction novel of one family, the next century, and all the change to come. "Sweepingly ambitious yet focused with intimate detail on one family, this forecast/call-for-action from Bengier (author of Journey to 2125) surveys the next century of life on Earth.... 'You are here to save the planet', an engineer tells grad students in the mid 21st century. Journey to 2125 explores how some could try." --Publishers Weekly/BookLife Editors' Pick "One family's consequential journey through the trials and triumphs of the coming century, including climate change, medicine, AI, and the new world order as robots displace human labor, all while experiencing the multi-generational tug of family dynamics, and what it means to be a human. A must read for those who seek to understand how technology and humanity will shape the coming century." -Raissa D'Souza Associate Dean, Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis; External Professor and member of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute "Personal and highly believable, the interesting family of characters in Journey to 2125 attempt to solve humanity's most pressing problems of the next century." -Alex Filippenko Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley "A fascinating and fun read from start to finish ... Journey to 2125 is one of those novels that will linger in the mind and memory long after the book itself has been finished and set back up the shelf." -Midwest Book Review " Journey to 2125 stands out as a must-read for its rich narrative that combines speculative fiction with poignant family drama and political insight." -Tech Snippets Today "Journey to 2125 (is) a story that delves into the nuances of humanity's future amidst rapid technological advancement." -Savoir Faire Magazine " Journey to 2125 offers a compelling mix of family saga, political drama, and hard-science speculation." -Book Junkiez "... a multi-generational story of adventure, rivalry, loss, survival, and resilience in a future where lives are impacted by war, automation, climate catastrophes." -Scifi4me / Live from the Bunker "This story is a hard-science exploration of how humanity might navigate the challenges and opportunities of the next hundred years." -Break Even Books "The reader finds himself trapped in a familiar drama, but with approaches to these themes, while maintaining an appealing and sensitizing narrative, the depth of these themes helps to reflect on current concerns and how they might evolve." -Booky Cat Gary F. Bengier is a writer, philosopher, and technologist.We all have many journeys. Gary's began in a small Midwest town, where he could play unfettered in the woods, finding an early love for nature and learning self-reliance. The space program and the night skies hooked him on astronomy. After finishing college, the wide world beckoned, and his fascination with science drew him to California to participate in the booming tech industry. Now he still stares upward, wondering what it all is about.After a career in Silicon Valley, Gary pursued passion projects, studying astrophysics and philosophy. He's spent the last two decades thinking about how to live a balanced, meaningful life in a rapidly evolving technological world. This self-reflective journey infuses his novels with insights about our future and the challenges we will face in finding purpose.Before turning to writing speculative fiction, Gary worked in a variety of Silicon