Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XBQ443G |
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| Number of Pages | : | 444 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Quantum Computing Since Democritus "Playful, yet deep." – Dr. Phil Plait, astronomer, author, writer of the Bad Astronomy Blog "Kelly and Zach promised me a crystal ball, but what I got is both more insightful and far more entertaining than staring into a dumb glass orb. Soonish will make you laugh and -- without you even realizing it -- give you insight into the most ambitious technological feats of our time. "Space elevators, gold asteroids, and fusion-powered toasters - who knew science could be so much fun? And who knew
. His work has been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Forbes, Science Friday, Boingboing, the Freakonomics Blog, the RadioLab blog, Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, CNN, Discovery Magazine, and more. Zach Weinersmith is the cartoonist behind the popular geek webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Kelly spoke at Smithsonian Magazine's "The Future
Kelly Weinersmith give us a snapshot of what's coming next -- from robot swarms to nuclear fusion powered-toasters. 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.. 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. 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. By weaving their own res