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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... telephone but usually adequate . And the price can't be beat . One of the authors lives in southwestern New Hampshire , where he has an account with the more expensive ( but more convenient ) of two regional Internet service providers ...
... telephones used to work with " analog " signals . That is , they represented sound and images by varying the strength ... telephone - style headsets for personal computers , together with the software needed to operate them . Using these ...
... telephone but usually adequate . And the price can't be beat . One of the authors lives in southwestern New Hampshire , where he has an account with the more expensive ( but more convenient ) of two regional Internet service providers ...
... telephone system , the software was broken into reusable blocks . The idea then was not so much to reuse the code as to make it more reliable and easier to maintain . The concept worked . This is one reason the United States enjoys some ...
... telephone service in the world . IBM used much the same approach in creating the operating system for its classic 360 mainframe computer . At the time , it was one of the largest programming projects ever devised . Programmers since ...
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 |