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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... kind of propulsion replaces the internal combustion engine , the effects will be obvious to us all . Yet it is true also that in making these choices , we often simply have followed where our curiosity leads . Not all such decisions XIV ...
... kind of machine . Computers with many thousands of processors already are on the drawing board . For certain specialized kinds of calculation , nothing else approaches the speed of parallel pro- cessors . However , distributing each ...
... kind of commitment . Instead , companies such as IBM and Analog Devices have been working with an alloy of silicon and germanium . Alloy circuits can operate twice as fast as traditional silicon chips , and they can be made on the ...
... kind of heritage of reusable parts that mechanical engineers and architects rely on . If a new project must send information to a printer , someone must write a printer driver for it , no matter how often programmers have written ...
... kind of bottleneck that would cripple the development of useful products from all the bright new ideas emerging from the world's re- search centers . OOP will keep the computer revolution moving at full speed well into the next century ...
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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