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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... carry power ; telephone lines carry conversations and , increasingly , computer data ; television cables carry ... umm , entertainment ? -video signals , at any rate . Recently , some electric utilities have added a fourth set of lines ...
... carry a keyboard or screen . Instead , just talk to the machine . Tell it what you want to know , and it will tell you the answer . " Of course , " he added , " by then , you could just wire the computer directly into your brain . But ...
... 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 . Our friend really does know what the computer industry is planning . He has ...
... carry power ; telephone lines carry conversations and , increasingly , computer data ; television cables carry ... umm , entertainment ? -video signals , at any rate . Recently , some electric utilities have added a fourth set of lines ...
... carry out one program instruction 60,000 times per second , while the P6 can perform 250 million instructions per second . ( The fastest experimental processors made today are four times faster yet . ) The other reason is a matter 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 |