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Author : William A. Redding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Our Near Future written by William A. Redding and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Redding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Our Near Future written by William A. Redding and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
ISBN 13 : 9780099334712
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Myths of the Near Future written by J. G. Ballard and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published 1982. Short stories providing visions of other times and other places, where nothing seems quite right
Author : Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316300160
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The Ministry for the Future written by Kim Stanley Robinson and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem "If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox) The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis. "One hopes that this book is read widely—that Robinson’s audience, already large, grows by an order of magnitude. Because the point of his books is to fire the imagination."―New York Review of Books "If there’s any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a sweeping epic about climate change and humanity’s efforts to try and turn the tide before it’s too late." ―Polygon (Best of the Year) "Masterly." —New Yorker "[The Ministry for the Future] struck like a mallet hitting a gong, reverberating through the year ... it’s terrifying, unrelenting, but ultimately hopeful. Robinson is the SF writer of my lifetime, and this stands as some of his best work. It’s my book of the year." —Locus "Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom." ―Bloomberg Green
Author : David Sergeant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009279882
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction written by David Sergeant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores contemporary fiction set in the near future to shed new light on our culture's relationship to the Anthropocene.
Author : Parth Sarthi Pandey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Near Future (B&W Edition) written by Parth Sarthi Pandey and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whіlе thе futurе can never be рrеdісtеd wіth аbѕоlutе сеrtаіntу, рrеѕеnt undеrѕtаndіng іn various ѕсіеntіfіс fіеldѕ allows fоr thе prediction оf some fаr-futurе events, if оnlу іn thе broadest оutlіnе. Thеѕе fields іnсludе аѕtrорhуѕісѕ, whісh hаѕ rеvеаlеd hоw рlаnеtѕ аnd ѕtаrѕ form, interact, аnd dіе; раrtісlе рhуѕісѕ, whісh hаѕ rеvеаlеd how matter behaves at thе smallest ѕсаlеѕ; еvоlutіоnаrу biology, whісh predicts how lіfе will еvоlvе over tіmе; аnd рlаtе tectonics, whісh ѕhоwѕ hоw соntіnеntѕ ѕhіft оvеr mіllеnnіа. This book will take on a journey to the future, which to be honest, is quite unpredictable. This book will go threw 6 Chapters.1. Introduction ( To our Future)2. Biology is our next best friend ( Genetics)3. Genes are Magnificent ( CRISPR)4. Impact on Life ( Applications of CRISPR)5. Our Next Adventure ( Megastructures of Space)6. Finding the Planets ( Best fit for our Accomodation)The Near Future is a series of 7 books. Each of 50-60 pages long, and this first part is the general introduction of our upcoming future. Other books will go through different chapters from this first book.
Author : HardPress
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781314297430
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Our Near Future; a Message to All the Governments and People of Earth written by HardPress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Michio Kaku
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385530811
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Physics of the Future written by Michio Kaku and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation details the developments in computer technology, artificial intelligence, medicine, space travel, and more, that are poised to happen over the next century. “Mind-bending…. [An] alternately fascinating and frightening book.” —San Francisco Chronicle Space elevators. Internet-enabled contact lenses. Cars that fly by floating on magnetic fields. This is the stuff of science fiction—it’s also daily life in the year 2100. Renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku considers how these inventions will affect the world economy, addressing the key questions: Who will have jobs? Which nations will prosper? Kaku interviews three hundred of the world’s top scientists—working in their labs on astonishing prototypes. He also takes into account the rigorous scientific principles that regulate how quickly, how safely, and how far technologies can advance. In Physics of the Future, Kaku forecasts a century of earthshaking advances in technology that could make even the last centuries’ leaps and bounds seem insignificant.
Author : William a Redding
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019804407
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)
Download or read book No. 3 Our Near Future written by William a Redding and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dystopian novel, William A. Redding imagines what the world will be like in the near future if humanity fails to address pressing issues like overpopulation and resource depletion. The novel presents a stark warning about the consequences of inaction, and a call to action for readers everywhere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Michio Kaku
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385542771
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Future of Humanity written by Michio Kaku and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The national bestselling author of The God Equation traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies. “Amazing … Kaku is in smooth perfect control of it the entire time.” —The Christian Science Monitor We are entering a new Golden Age of space exploration. With irrepressible enthusiasm and a deep understanding of the cutting-edge research in space travel, world-renowned physicist and futurist Dr. Michio Kaku presents a compelling vision of how humanity may develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. He reveals the developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology that may allow us to terraform and build habitable cities on Mars and beyond. He then journeys out of our solar system and discusses how new technologies such as nanoships, laser sails, and fusion rockets may actually make interstellar travel a possibility. We travel beyond our galaxy, and even beyond our universe, as Kaku investigates some of the hottest topics in science today, including warp drive, wormholes, hyperspace, parallel universes, and the multiverse. Ultimately, he shows us how humans may someday achieve a form of immortality and be able to leave our bodies entirely, laser porting to new havens in space.
Author : Andrew Hewett Malcolm Lomas
Publisher : Austin Macauley
ISBN 13 : 9781528908917
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Near Future written by Andrew Hewett Malcolm Lomas and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Near Future is a dystopian thriller set in a fictional United Kingdom where global warming has left the country ravaged. Migrants to this country are forced to live in squalor as the scapegoats of a corrupt media-savvy government. The protagonist is an unwilling government worker torn between these worlds. He navigates through heat waves, informants, poverty and squalid decadence. This is a country where families camp out on vanishing beaches and people seek solace in synthetic gurus. His only means of survival is to track down and eliminate an old friend. This former ally lives in a youthful freedom he can only dream of.
Author : Michel Callon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942130589
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Markets in the Making written by Michel Callon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of how everyday market activity gets produced. If you’re convinced you know what a market is, think again. In his long-awaited study, French sociologist and engineer Michel Callon takes us to the heart of markets, to the unsung processes that allow innovations to become robust products and services. Markets in the Making begins with the observation that stable commercial transactions are more enigmatic, more elusive, and more involved than previously described by economic theory. Slicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of market activity that emphasizes what people designing products or launching startups soon discover—the inherent difficulties of connecting individuals to things. Callon’s model is founded upon the notion of “singularization,” the premise that goods and services must adapt and be adapted to the local milieu of every individual whose life they enter. Person by person, thing by thing, Callon demonstrates that for ordinary economic transactions to emerge en masse, singular connections must be made. Pushing us to see markets as more than abstract interfaces where pools of anonymous buyers and sellers meet, Callon draws our attention to the exhaustively creative practices that market professionals continuously devise to entangle people and things. Markets in the Making exemplifies how prototypes, fragile curiosities that have only just been imagined, are gradually honed into predictable objects and practices. Once these are active enough to create a desired effect, yet passive enough to be transferred from one place to another without disruption, they will have successfully achieved the status of “goods” or “services.” The output of this more ample process of innovation, as redefined by Callon, is what we recognize as “the market”—commercial activity, at scale. The capstone of an influential research career at the forefront of science and technology studies, Markets in the Making coherently integrates the empirical perspective of product engineering with the values of the social sciences. After masterfully redescribing how markets are made, Callon culminates with a strong empirical argument for why markets can and should be harnessed to enact social change. His is a theory of markets that serves social critique.
Author : William A. Redding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330510131
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Our Near Future written by William A. Redding and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Near Future: A Message to All the Governments and People of Earth Only recently has it been possible to state, with any thing like accuracy, the dates when the occurrences mentioned in The Old Testament took place, for the reason that history is not reliable beyond 600 B. C.; but the great organized societies of the United States, England and France have sent astronomers, mathematicians, doctors, teachers, students, preachers, etc., etc., to Egypt, Palestine, Babylon and other ancient settlements of earth to dig up, uncover, figure out and interpret the inscriptions on monuments, bricks, slabs, walls, tombs, statuary, pottery, pyramids, buildings, etc., which were made by the inhabitants of earth long before history was written in orderly manner; and they have brought to the surface many things which throw light on the dates when some if the occurrences mentioned in the Bible took place; and in every instance the discoveries have confirmed the Bible narrative. It is the hand of God at work to stun and drive to the wall the people, who have become so wise in their own conceit that they have been denying the accuracy of the Bible, and are now so bold as to deny even the existence of God Himself, right in the face of facts now occurring, which clearly show His movements over the earth with great power, like the rumblings of the thunder, so that the heavens and the earth are trembling under His footsteps and the governments of men are being shaken to pieces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William A. Redding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781358350269
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Our Near Future written by William A. Redding and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Kelly
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143110373
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Inevitable written by Kevin Kelly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A quintessential work of technological futurism.” – James Surowiecki, strategy + business, “Best Business Books 2017 – Innovation” 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. Kelly’s 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.
Author : Ray Kurzweil
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399562761
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Singularity Is Nearer written by Ray Kurzweil and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have largely come true, with concepts like AI, intelligent machines, and biotechnology now widely familiar to the public. In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity—assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technology—that, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world, atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by connecting our brains to the cloud; how exponential technologies are propelling innovation forward in all industries and improving all aspects of our well-being such as declining poverty and violence; and the growth of renewable energy and 3-D printing. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics of current controversy as how AI will impact employment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which aims to virtually revive deceased individuals through a combination of their data and DNA. The culmination of six decades of research on artificial intelligence, The Singularity Is Nearer is Ray Kurzweil’s crowning contribution to the story of this science and the revolution that is to come.
Author : Michael Bess
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807052183
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Our Grandchildren Redesigned written by Michael Bess and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic overview of biotechnologies that can endlessly boost human capabilities and the drastic changes these “superhuman” traits could trigger Biotechnology is moving fast. In the coming decades, advanced pharmaceuticals, bioelectronics, and genetic interventions will be used not only to heal the sick but to boost human physical and mental performance to unprecedented levels. People will have access to pills that make them stronger and faster, informatic devices will interface seamlessly with the human brain, and epigenetic modification may allow people to reshape their own physical and mental identities at will. Until recently, such major technological watersheds—like the development of metal tools or the industrialization of manufacturing—came about incrementally over centuries or longer. People and social systems had time to adapt: they gradually developed new values, norms, and habits to accommodate the transformed material conditions. But contemporary society is dangerously unprepared for the dramatic changes it is about to experience down this road on which it is already advancing at an accelerating pace. The results will no doubt be mixed. People will live longer, healthier lives, will fine-tune their own thought processes, and will generate staggeringly complex and subtle forms of knowledge and insight. But these technologies also threaten to widen the rift between rich and poor, to generate new forms of social and economic division, and to force people to engage in constant cycles of upgrades and boosts merely to keep up. Individuals who boost their traits beyond a certain threshold may acquire such extreme capabilities that they will no longer be recognized as unambiguously human. In this important and timely book, prize-winning historian Michael Bess provides a clear, nontechnical overview of cutting-edge biotechnology and paints a vivid portrait of a near-future society in which bioenhancement has become a part of everyday life. He surveys the ethical questions raised by the enhancement enterprise and explores the space for human agency in dealing with the challenges that these technologies will present. Headed your way over the coming decades: new biotechnologies that can powerfully alter your body and mind. The possibilities are tantalizing: • Rejuvenation therapies offering much longer lives (160 and even beyond) in full vigor and mental acuity • Cognitive enhancement through chemical or bioelectronic means (the rough equivalent of doubling or tripling IQ scores) • Epigenetic tools for altering some of your genetically influenced traits at any point in your lifetime (body shape, athletic ability, intelligence, personality) • Bioelectronic devices for modulating your own brain processes, including your “pleasure centers” (a potentially non-stop high) • Direct control of machines by thought, and perhaps direct communication with other people, brain-to-brain (a new dimension of sharing and intimacy) But some of the potential consequences are also alarming: • A growing rift between the biologically enhanced and those who can’t afford such modifications • A constant cycle of upgrades and boosts as the bar of “normal” rises ever higher—“Humans 95, Humans XP, Humans 8” • The fragmentation of humankind into rival “bioenhancement clusters” • A gradually blurring boundary between “person” and “product” • Extreme forms of self-modification, with some individuals no longer recognized as unambiguously human
