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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... century after America's founders conceived their agrarian democ- racy , nearly all their descendents still lived on small farms . Since World War I , technology has extracted us from behind horse - drawn plows and plugged us into ...
... century will be a time of relative peace and growing comfort throughout most of the world . Our future will be constrained by demographic , eco- nomic , and political forces that should be under our control yet seldom are - but it will ...
... century . The line soldiers in the most modern armies of future conflicts may track their position in battle using satellite data projected onto helmet - mounted screens while state - of - the - art bio- sensors scan the air for ...
... century mark , and scientists will use that extra time to provide even greater extensions . Just conceivably , as a result of research now under way , some of us may never die . Not all of these promises will be kept . Yet many will be ...
... century . One is a child of the 1960s . The other has an even longer history . Object - oriented programming ( OOP ) systems are the Lego blocks of the software world . Though high - tech in detail , in spirit they are as sim- ple as a ...
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 |