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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... The Long Climb Back to Space 132 7 Energy Without Tears 151 8 Nursing an Injured Planet 174 9 Medicine for the New Millennium 197 Appendix : A Timetable for the Future 229 Index 285 PREFACE E FA his book is about the future of VII.
... 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 , its products seemed to fit best in other chapters , where they have been forced ...
... space , so 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.
... space roughly the size of a fingernail . The Intel Pentium Pro , currently the firm's most powerful chip , contains 5.5 million transistors in a space not all that much larger . There are a lot more circuit elements to do the work , and ...
... they usually will make perfect sense . And unlike Hal , of 2001 : A Space Odyssey , when they act behind our backs they will be plotting to do us good . ? REACH OUT AND TOUCH • . IN THE ANYONE 27 GET READY FOR DIGITAL EVERYTHING.
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 |