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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... speed railroads . • Former defense contractors may bind the continents with single- stage - to - orbit aerospace planes capable of leaping halfway around the world in two hours . The industrial countries will use automation to mass ...
... speed of today's fastest personal computers . We have no idea what to do with all that computing power . We doubt that anyone else knows either . Even the lowest estimates of the advances coming in the next decade will give tomorrow's ...
... speed . Current processors carry out three to six instructions at one time . In fifteen years , the number is likely to be several dozen . These incremental advances alone will make tomorrow's computers several hundred times more pow ...
... speed of parallel pro- cessors . However , distributing each program among many processors has proved to be almost as hard as passing one of our New Yorkers through several turnstiles at once . It is difficult enough to separate most ...
... speeds several times as fast as silicon can offer . However , switching to GaAs requires an enormous investment in specialized equipment - over- whelming even by the standards of an industry in which the price of a new factory now ...
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 |