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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... becomes largely irrelevant to our lives . Robots and automation will directly affect us all ; yet we have largely ignored them . In manufacturing , computers already have made it pos- sible to assign machines to most of the jobs once ...
... become cheaper ( in real terms ) , even as their quality improves and consumer satisfaction rises . Yet these changes , which will touch all our lives di- rectly , have as much to do with economic forces as with technology . New and ...
... needs , the world will become a friendlier , more convenient place in which to live . We return to some of the more promising uses of tomorrow's com- puters later in this chapter . For now , let 5 GET READY FOR DIGITAL EVERYTHING.
... become extraordinarily complex , in practice it is simple , much like print- ing an ordinary photograph . The printing machine , known as a stepper , shines light through a mask onto a wafer of silicon , which is coated with a material ...
... become so small that photolithography is hard- pressed to make them . The waves of light itself are as large as the com- ponents , so they cannot be focused sharply enough to produce a usable image on the silicon . The traceries of ...
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 |