Soonish : ten emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything / Kelly and Zach Weinersmith.
What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already? Cartoonist Zach Weinersmith (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) and researcher Dr. Kelly Weinersmith give us a snapshot of what's coming next, from robot swarms to nuclear-fusion-po...
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2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cheap access to space: The Final Frontier is too damn expensive
- Asteroid mining: Rummaging through the Solar System's junkyard
- 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
- 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.