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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... industrial countries will use automation to mass - produce high - quality consumer goods at prices so low that the ... industries into space , so that Earth can recover from our past environmental follies . It will not happen in the next ...
... industry is planning . He has spent the last twenty years of his life helping to develop salable products from the ideas handed down by its research departments . Yet we doubted about half of his forecasts . For example , scientists ...
... industry in which the price of a new factory now starts at over $ 1 billion . To date , chip makers have been unwilling to make that kind of commitment . Instead , companies such as IBM and Analog Devices have been working with an alloy ...
... industries , the last stronghold of human labor . Again , the opportunities for human workers are shrinking . Cheaper ... industry can absorb many of the people displaced by this new , more capable brand of automation . After all , sick ...
... Industrial Average served up with breakfast , you could have it automatically branded on your toast . No doubt he was half joking , but an intelligent toaster linked to your media butler could do it easily . As they learn what we find ...
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 |