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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... decades to come . Technology is not the only power that will shape our future for good or ill . Yet it is the critical force that more than any other single factor , although not unin- fluenced by the rest , will determine what is ...
... 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 performed by human workers ; over the next decade or so , they XIII PREFACE.
... decade or so , they will send even more of us to the unemployment lines . At the same time , they will allow companies to tailor their goods for the individual customer , while retaining all the efficiency of mass production . Most ...
... decades - will begin to link its major cities with high - speed railroads . • Former defense contractors may bind the continents with single- stage - to - orbit aerospace planes capable of leaping halfway around the world in two hours ...
... decade or two later . • Almost certainly , medical research will extend the healthy human life span beyond the century mark , and scientists will use that extra time to provide even greater extensions . Just conceivably , as a result 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 |