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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... less with technology in general . It permeates and shapes our lives at every turn . We live in tech- nology as fish live in the sea , and we have only a little better chance of forecasting the details of its changes . Yet the task is ...
... less clear . For various reasons , we have slighted entire fields in which the near future is sure to bring sweeping change . New technologies arrive first in war , where the Darwinian pressure for improvement is greatest and budgets ...
... less optimistic about another strategy from which researchers have long expected much greater advances in computing speed . This is parallel processing . This technique aims to break a problem into many smaller tasks , perform each one ...
... the answer . On its first try , the DNA computer solved its problem faster than any electronic computer could have done . As a bonus , it even used less energy . None of this means that DNA computers will soon flood 12 P R W S B A R R I M.
... less than a year after Adelman demonstrated his prototype , a Princeton computer scientist named Richard Lipton figured out how to represent the zeros and ones of an ordinary computer as patterns of DNA . He also worked out a means by ...
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 |