The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen - and What to Do (2nd edition)
Updated Edition -- Written for a popular audience, yet peer reviewed for scientific accuracy
What might things be like some day, how long it might take, and what we can do about it?
Imaginative yet substantive, readable yet science oriented, and occasionally humorous, this book proposes future scenarios spanning from the current century to nearly eternity. Most chapters offer a concluding section with recommendations and often, agree or disagree, the author's occasionally inimitable opinions. Over 300 references.
Discover
What it Means That an Hour’s Work Yields a Week’s Food in chapter 1. Foresee the
Teeming Cities of Mars (chap. 21). Learn why it’s
Keyboards Yesterday, Mind Reading Tomorrow (chap. 3). Explore what happens
When Genomes Get Cheap (chap. 6). Prepare for an
Asteroid Apocalypse (chap. 25). Get smarter with
Smart Pills’n Such (chap. 5). Experience a
Soylent Spring (chap. 9). Understand nukes better by
Deconstructing Nonproliferation (chap. 13). Get ready for a
Space Empire (chap. 14). Have you wondered —
Will Artificial Intelligence Threaten Civilization? (See chap. 12.) Why you would benefit from
Wiki-Wiki-Wikipedia (chap. 4). How we will
Live Anywhere, Work Anywhere Else (chap. 2). How the future
Tastes Like the Singularity (chap. 15). There’s global warming, and there’s
Warm, Poison Planet (chap. 17). But let’s not forget about
Big Ice (chap. 22). Things may really grow on trees with
New Plant Paradigms (chap. 24). What is
Sic Transit Humanitas: The Transcent of Man (chap. 26)? We all have
Questions (chap. 31). And much more!
This book is aimed at the reader who is interested in the future, and intrigued by science and technology.