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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... human experience has expanded almost beyond the recognition of those who grew up in our grandparents ' generation . A century after America's founders conceived their agrarian democ- racy , nearly all their descendents still lived on ...
... humanity still confronts problems that have burdened it for decades or millennia , the early twenty - first century ... human endeavor and the one discipline whose entire purpose is to make the future different from the present . Merely ...
... human activity , from office work to medical care to the arts . Medicine is another essential subject . Yet so many individual discov- eries are being made almost daily that we have had to cull our potential topics rigorously . The few ...
... 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 research now under way , some of us may never die . Not all of these promises will ...
... human hair . By 2000 or so , they will be 0.1 micron across , or roughly the width of a coil of DNA . Microchips are made by photolithography . Though the process has become extraordinarily complex , in practice it is simple , much like ...
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 |