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: |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 77
... 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 come . Technology is not the only power that will shape our future for good ...
... materials . A good argument could be made for using some of this book's limited space to examine these developments . Yet as a technology ge- netic engineering itself has grown surprisingly mature in the last twenty years . In the end ...
... that Earth can recover from our past environmental follies . It will not happen in the next twenty years . Yet the development work now in progress should sharply reduce the cost of launching material , or people , XV PREFACE.
... material , or people , into orbit . And that could set the stage for more dramatic advances a decade or two later . • Almost certainly , medical research will extend the healthy human life span beyond the century mark , and scientists ...
... light through a mask onto a wafer of silicon , which is coated with a material called a photoresist . The mask is a simple black - and - white picture of the circuit being created . ( Today's masks 8 P R S B A B W E M O R R I.
Contents
1 | |
28 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Probable Tomorrows: How Science and Technology Will Transform Our Lives in ... Marvin Cetron,Owen Davies No preview available - 1997 |