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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How Science and Technology Will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty Years Marvin Cetron, Owen Davies. PROBABLE TOMORROWS ALSO BY MARVIN CETRON AND OWEN DAVIES Crystal Globe Educational.
... Our Lives in the Next Twenty Years Marvin Cetron, Owen Davies. ALSO BY MARVIN CETRON AND OWEN DAVIES Crystal Globe Educational Renaissance American Renaissance Tomorrows HOW SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WILL TRANSFORM OUR LIVES IN.
... 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 well worth undertaking . Whatever hints we can glean about the ...
... live only fifty - four years . By the early 1990s , average life expectancy in the United States had climbed to seventy - five years , seventy - two for men and nearly seventy ... lives finding things to X P T O M O R R O W S R E B A B.
... live longer and healthier lives , enjoy a broader range of choice in both material goods and lifestyles than our ancestors could have conceived , science and technology deserve most of the credit . And so it will be in the decades to ...
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 |