Author Lene Andersen There are five books in Both-And, all written as a dialogue between retired tv-producer Cornelius Magnussen and lifestyle journalist Tenna E. Rasmussen. Their conversation lasts five days, each day with a theme of its own: Monday What are we doing? How does it all hang together? Who are we? Tuesday Who are we? Wednesday Where are we heading? Thursday Why? Friday So, what are we going to do about it?
	God is Great and Niels Bohr is his Prophet - an essay presenting some central thoughts in Both-And
	About Lene Andersen and how Both-And came about

Was I right, or was I right?
From Both-And Wednesday, 2007:

      The anomaly in 2000-2010 was alienation, poverty and being a loser, so that was what we assumed would be mainstream 2010-2020.
      Depression, in other words?
      A number of economic crashes. Partly due to the fact that the current attempts at control have turned out to be one big illusion. We're heading for turbulent times. Everybody has been digging in behind tight defensive lines and, once they're breached, there's a risk that the whole caboodle comes crashing down. Wall Street-thinking has not brought people together but has turned everybody against each other, and meanwhile, the gap between the richest and the poorest has only widened.

Writing this in 2007, while the economy was booming, went against every gut-feeling I had. None the less, it was the only logical consequence of my analyses in Both-And.

But that was just 2010-2020. What about the rest of our future?

	Ian Golding on ted.com Navigating our global future

The future in general
As a species, we are on the threshold of turning into two different species, not just culturally but, eventually, biologically as well:

The first group is small; people have good education and access to health insurance, genetic improvements and the benefits of new technologies. Their skills are in demand globally, and it will be they - or a small group of them - who will own close to everything.

The second group, perhaps 98 per cent of us, will be pushed around, will have no access to health insurance, their children will get dreadful schooling, and in general, they will be deprived of many of their current rights and freedoms.

Over time, 8-10 generations will do if social mobility between the two groups becomes increasingly harder, the physical differences will be visible: The haves will be tall, slender, intelligent, and beautiful; the have-nots will be... different.

The question for all of us, therefore, is: Do we want to continue as one human species with human rights that apply to everybody? Or do we want to accept that technological and economic development is dividing us up into, not just winners and losers, but "Übermenschen and Untermenschen" (i.e. superior and inferior human beings), and that we are stripping our fellow man of his dignity and opportunities?

This is a question we all have to make up our minds about, because if we do not, the Übermensch and the Untermensch will become a reality.

	Juan Enriques on ted.com Mindboggling new science

It's all about knowledge and choice
We have to choose, in other words. Choose between doing nothing or making the right political decisions. Those choices and decisions are what Both-And is about, and it is in order to promote an informed debate about these matters that I have written my books.

And on a different note: the "Occupy" movement and the so-called "99%" have to do better, acquire some more know-how and some useful qualifications if they want to make a difference. Camping, playing drums and expressing what you don't want doesn't make it. One has to be able to express what one does want too and, preferably, come up with some alternatives. Just complaining won't solve any problems or get us anywhere.

In the fifth and final book of Both-And, I have come up with some alternative solutions to the exact same problems that everybody seems to be protesting against.

	Gordon Brown on ted.com A web for global good

Others say it too
I am not alone in my predictions and I have found four clips on www.ted.com with people who share my concerns and hopes.

What kind of world and what kind of future would you prefer for yourself and for your children?

	Sashi Tharoor on ted.com Soft power

The hope is, of course, that we begin to make wiser decisions. Or as Cornelius Magnussen says a few times in the books: Most of our current problems were once the solution to something else.

Is this for nerds only?
Both-And is written for everyone. Readers are between 17 and 87 years of age; there is roughly an equal number of men and women reading it, and they come from all walks of life.

We are the universe,
which has come to acknowledge its own existence.

Lene Andersen