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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... chips that can be linked directly to nerve cells ; yet that neural interface is a lot farther off than many optimistic engineers recognize . Before they can usefully wire a computer into our nervous systems , scientists will have to ...
... chips will be about 15,000 times more potent than the processors that power today's cutting - edge personal ... chip , contains 5.5 million transistors in a space not all that much larger . There are a lot more circuit elements to do the ...
... chips processed these instructions one at a time until the program was complete . It was a lot like trying to move the entire population of New York City through a single subway turnstile . In recent years , computer engineers have ...
... chips are only 0.35 micron across , or 35 hundred- millionths of a meter , just over one - three - hundredth the diameter of a human hair . By 2000 or so , they will be 0.1 micron across , or roughly the width of a coil of DNA ...
... chip can contain as many as twenty layers of circuitry , each one laid down by this exacting process . Those circuits ... chips , photolithog- raphy soon will be obsolete . Several alternatives will come to the rescue of chip designers ...
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 |