Probable Tomorrows: How Science and Technology Will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty YearsA fascinating look at near-future advances, inventions, products, services, and everyday conveniences that will change how we live and work. Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies explore these changes and the impact they will have on everyday life. For example, by the year 2010: |
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... able to " type " and enter commands by pressing buttons . They will just have to carry an extra box , this one much like the remote control for a television . Even with these add - ons , the com- puter of 2007 will be one tiny package ...
... able to switch pro- grams - in both senses - and display your favorite TV show . Your TV is a computer , and your computer is a TV . That is convergence . It is happening wherever technology meets information . Already , the cheapest ...
... able to capture ever finer circuit details . These refinements have been a major factor in the development of today's densely packed microchips , but they have nearly reached the end of the line . In the next generation of processor ...
... able to scribe circuits one - tenth the size of the smallest now available . It is too early to say which of these technologies will be used to manufacture tomorrow's advanced microchips . However , it seems certain that one of them ...
... able only from bulky TV - tube monitors . And so on , almost without end . Yet the time has come to move on . Without software to control it , all this hardware is just scrap metal , plastic , and highly purified sand . That means there ...
Contents
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Bricks for the HighTech Future | 63 |
Engineering One Atom at a Time | 85 |
You Can Get There from Here | 105 |
The Long Climb Back to Space | 132 |
Energy Without Tears | 151 |
Nursing an Injured Planet | 174 |
Medicine for the New Millennium | 197 |
A Timetable for the Future | 229 |
Index | 285 |
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Probable Tomorrows: How Science and Technology Will Transform Our Lives in ... Marvin Cetron,Owen Davies No preview available - 1997 |