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A fraction of a second can decide everything.

Staff Sergeant Daniel Mercer has spent his career training for the narrow interval between recognizing a threat and acting on it. In combat, hesitation can be fatal. When a classified research program offers a biological modification designed to shorten that interval, the promise is simple: faster decisions, greater certainty, improved survival.

At first, the results look like success.

Reaction times drop. Operators move with unprecedented clarity and confidence. In environments where uncertainty costs lives, the program appears to deliver exactly what it was designed to achieve.

But hesitation exists for a reason.

The space between perception and action is where doubt forms, where alternative interpretations emerge, where decisions can be reconsidered before they become irreversible. When that space begins to shrink, the effects do not remain confined to the battlefield.

As researchers and commanders study the long-term results of the program, subtle changes begin to appear. Decisions arrive faster. Confidence rises. Reversal becomes less common. Institutions adjust, systems adapt, and small shifts in human behavior begin to propagate through environments far beyond the original experiment.

What began as an effort to improve human performance becomes something far more difficult to measure-and nearly impossible to contain.

Told through the intersecting perspectives of soldiers, scientists, and the institutions trying to manage the consequences of their own innovation, Fearless: The Ecology of Fear explores how a tiny change in the architecture of decision-making can reshape the systems people depend on to live together.

Not through catastrophe.

Through adaptation.

And once the interval between perception and action begins to narrow, the world may never recover the space it once had to think.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: Fearless
• Podnázev: The Ecology of Fear
• Autor: John Pritchett
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 274
• EAN: 9798233970252
• ID: 51943437
• Nakladatelství: John Pritchett
• Hmotnost: 322 g
• Rozměry: 216 × 140 × 16 mm
• Datum vydání: 04. March 2026

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