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What the future looks like : sciencists predict the next great discoveries and reveal how today's breakthroughs are already shaping our world / by Al-Khalili, Jim,1962-editor.(CARDINAL)341481; Ball, Philip,1962-Demographics.; Vince, Gaia.Biosphere.; Slingo, Julia,1950-Climate change.; Kucharski, Adam(Mathematician).Future of medicine.; Prasad, Aarathi.Genomics and genetic engineering.; Rutherford, Adam.Synthetic biology.; Walker, Mark(Mark Alan).Transhumanism.; Climer, Naomi,1964-Cloud and "internet of things."; Woodward, Alan(Computer scientist).Cybersecurity.; Boden, Margaret A.AI.(CARDINAL)796790; Hensinger, Winfried K.Quantum computing.; Ploszajski, Anna.Smart materials.; Hardy, Jeff(Jeffrey J. E.).Energy.; Miles, J.(John),1960-Transportation.; Sharkey, N. E.(Noel E.).Robotics.; Preston, Louisa.Interstellar travel and colonizing the solar system.; Dartnell, Lewis.Apocalypse.; Al-Khalili, Jim,1962-Teleportation and time travel.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Science; Technological forecasting.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The inevitable : understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future / by Kelly, Kevin,1952-author.(CARDINAL)350274;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-316) and index.
Subjects: Technological innovations;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The inevitable : understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future / by Kelly, Kevin,1952-author.(CARDINAL)350274;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Becoming -- Cognifying -- Flowing -- Screening -- Accessing -- Sharing -- Filtering -- Remixing -- Interacting -- Tracking -- Questioning -- Beginning.An expert tech writer discusses the forces and trends that will revolutionize daily life through the upcoming technological advances of the next thirty years. -- Provided by publisher.From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives. Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces. Kelly both describes these deep trends interacting, cognifying, flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning and demonstrates how they overlap and are codependent on one another. These larger forces will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate with each other. By understanding and embracing them, says Kelly, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits. Kellys bright, hopeful book will be indispensable to anyone who seeks guidance on where their business, industry, or life is heading what to invent, where to work, in what to invest, how to better reach customers, and what to begin to put into place as this new world emerges. -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Technological innovations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Future / by Tambini, Michael.(CARDINAL)634685;
Provides a speculative look ahead to the technological, environmental, and biological developments of the twenty-first century.1120LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Technological forecasting; Forecasting; Technological forecasting.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Abundance [sound recording] : the future is better than you think by Daimandis, Peter H.;
Subjects: Technological forecasting.; Technological innovations; Technology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Abundance : the future is better than you think / by Diamandis, Peter H.(CARDINAL)398802; Kotler, Steven,1967-(CARDINAL)654867;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-356) and index.Our grandest challenge -- Building the pyramid -- Seeing the forest through the trees -- It's not as bad as you think -- Ray Kurzweil and the go-fast button -- The singularity is nearer -- The tools of cooperation -- Water -- Feeding nine billion -- The DIY innovator -- The technophilanthropists -- The rising billion -- Energy -- Education -- Health care -- Freedom -- Driving innovation and breakthroughs -- Risk and failure -- Which way nest?The authors document how four forces--exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the technophilanthropist, and the rising billion--are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. Abundance establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism.
Subjects: Technological innovations; Technological forecasting.; Technology;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Abundance : the future is better than you think / by Diamandis, Peter H.(CARDINAL)398802; Kotler, Steven,1967-(CARDINAL)654867;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-356) and index.Pt. 1: Perspective. Our grandest challenge -- Building the pyramid -- Seeing the forest through the trees -- It's not as bad as you think -- pt. 2: Exponential technologies. Ray Kurzweil and the go-fast button -- The singularity is nearer -- pt. 3: Building the base of the pyramid. The tools of cooperation -- Water -- Feeding nine billion -- pt. 4: The forces of abundance. The DIY innovator -- The technophilanthropists -- The rising billion -- pt. 5: Peak of the pyramid. Energy -- Education -- Health care -- Freedom -- pt. 6: Steering faster. Driving innovation and breakthroughs -- Risk and failure -- Which way next?The authors document how four forces--exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion--are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. "Abundance" establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism.
Subjects: Technological forecasting.; Technological innovations; Technology;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 14
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Soonish : emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything / by Weinersmith, Kelly,author.(CARDINAL)348023; Weinersmith, Zach,1982-author.(CARDINAL)348024;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1110L
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Humor.; Technological forecasting; Technological forecasting; Technological forecasting;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Soonish : ten emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything / by Weinersmith, Kelly,author.(CARDINAL)348023; Weinersmith, Zach,1982-author.(CARDINAL)348024;
"From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies--from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing. What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already? What is the holdup? In this smart and funny book, celebrated cartoonist Zach Weinersmith and noted researcher Dr. Kelly Weinersmith give us a snapshot of what's coming next--from robot swarms to nuclear-fusion-powered toasters. By weaving their own research, interviews with the scientists who are making these advances happen, and Zach's trademark comics, the Weinersmiths investigate why these technologies are needed, how they would work, and what is standing in their way. New technologies are almost never the work of isolated geniuses with a neat idea. A given future technology may need any number of intermediate technologies to develop first, and many of these critical advances may appear to be irrelevant when they are first discovered. The journey to progress is full of strange detours and blind alleys that tell us so much about the human mind and the march of civilization. To this end, SOONISH investigates ten different emerging fields, from programmable matter to augmented reality, from space elevators to robotic construction, to show us the amazing world we will have, you know, soonish."--Jacket.Introduction: Soonish. Emphasis on the ish -- Section 1: The universe, soonish. Cheap access to space : the Final Frontier is too damn expensive ; Asteroid mining : rummaging through the Solar System's junkyard -- Section 2: Stuff, soonish. Fusion power : it powers the sun, and that's nice, but can it run my toaster? ; Programmable matter : what if all of your stuff could be any of your stuff? ; Robotic construction : build me a rumpus room, metal servant! ; Augmented reality : an alternative to fixing reality ; Synthetic biology : kind of like Frankenstein, except the monster spends the whole book dutifully making medicine and industrial inputs -- Section 3: You, soonish. Precision medicine : everything that's wrong with you in particular--a statistical approach ; Bioprinting : why stop at seven margaritas when you can just print a new liver? ; Brain-computer interfaces : because after four billion years of evolution you still can't remember where you put your keys ; Conclusion: Less soonisher, or The graveyard of lost chapters.Includes bibliographical references and index.1110L
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Humor.; Technological forecasting; Technological forecasting; Technological forecasting;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 15
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Future imperfect : technology and freedom in an uncertain world / by Friedman, David D.(CARDINAL)759292;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-345) and index.
Subjects: Technological forecasting.; Technology;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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