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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... is good reason to hope that our lives , in sum and on average , will be better as a result . In an age of uncomfortable challenges , this is reassurance we all can use . For an idea of what is to come - in IX Preface.
... result of research now under way , some of us may never die . Not all of these promises will be kept . Yet many will be . It is from among the broad opportunities brought to us by technology that we will , deliberately or by default ...
... results of the individual computations into a single answer . In theory , this should be the ultimate upgrade . At this point , we have worn out our subway analogy . Instead , imagine adding two very large numbers . We add the ones ...
... result has proved all but impossible , save for those few specialized chores that lend themselves to subdivision . These problems will not be solved until someone achieves the kind of conceptual breakthrough whose appearance no one can ...
... resulting DNA . The shortest strand that began and ended with the appropriate cities and contained the codes for all the intermediate stops represented the answer . On its first try , the DNA computer solved its problem faster than any ...
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 |