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What the future looks like : scientists predict the next great discoveries and reveal how today's breakthroughs are already shaping our world /

"Science fact, not science fiction, on the cutting-edge developments that are already changing the course of our future. Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn't every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, aw...

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Group Author: Al-Khalili, Jim, 1962- (Editor); Ball, Philip, 1962-; Vince, Gaia.; Slingo, Julia, 1950-; Kucharski, Adam (Mathematician).; Prasad, Aarathi.; Rutherford, Adam.; Walker, Mark (Mark Alan).; Climer, Naomi, 1964-; Woodward, Alan (Computer scientist).; Boden, Margaret A.; Hensinger, Winfried K.; Ploszajski, Anna.; Hardy, Jeff (Jeffrey J. E.).; Miles, John.; Sharkey, N. E. (Noel E.).; Preston, Louisa.; Dartnell, Lewis.
Published: The Experiment, LLC,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Science > Forecasting.
Technological forecasting.
Summary: "Science fact, not science fiction, on the cutting-edge developments that are already changing the course of our future. Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn't every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award-winning author Jim Al-Khalili and his team of top-notch experts explain how today's earthshaking discoveries will shape our world tomorrow--and beyond. The scientists in the pages are interested only in the truth-- reality-based and speculation-free. The future they conjure is by turns tantalizing and sobering: There's plenty to look forward to, but also plenty to dread. And undoubtedly the best way to for us to face tomorrow's greatest challenges is to learn what the future looks like-- today"--Back cover.
Item Description: Originally published as: What's next? / edited by Jim Al-Khalili (London : Profile Books, 2017).
Carrier Form: 240 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-227) and index.
ISBN: 9781615194704
1615194703
Index Number: Q175
CLC: G303
Call Number: G303/W555-1
Contents: The future of our planet : demographics, conservation, and climate change. Demographics /
The future of us : medicine, genetics, and transhumanism. The future of medicine /
The future online : AI, quantum computing, and the internet. The cloud and "internet of things" /
Making the future : engineering, transportation, and energy. Smart materials /
The far future : time travel, the apocalypse, and living in space. Interstellar travel and colonizing the solar system /

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