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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... 3 - D image directly into our eyes . Wherever we look , it will seem that a high - resolution color screen is hanging in space just where we can see it most clearly . And those who cannot quite 1 Get Ready for Digital Everything.
... seems even more amazing because it requires no revolutionary technological breakthrough . The futuristic superchip of 2010 will be much the same mass of transistors etched into silicon that engineers have been improv- ing since the ...
... seems certain that one of them will be available for use when it is needed . There is one more way to make faster microcircuits : Instead of com- pressing them still further , change their properties so that electrons move through them ...
... seems that DNA computers could replace all those massively parallel supercomputers before the petaflop machines are even built . Then again , there is still that problem of reading the answer with- out spending a week at the nucleic ...
... seems possible that someone , someday will produce a useful machine based on quantum theory . A decade ago , not even the theoreticians held out much hope . What good would a computer be if you can't even be sure whether its bits are ...
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 |