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Soonish : ten emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything / Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2017Description: 358 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780399563843
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 601.12
Contents:
The universe, soonish
Cheap access to space : the final frontier is too damn expensive
Asteroid mining : rummaging through the solar system's junkyard
Stuff, soonish
Fusion power : it powers the sun, and that's nice, but can 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
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 year of evolution you still can't remember where you put your keys
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Book Book Main Library Reference Section Circulation C 601.12 W423s 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 122104d

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The universe, soonish

Cheap access to space : the final frontier is too damn expensive

Asteroid mining : rummaging through the solar system's junkyard

Stuff, soonish

Fusion power : it powers the sun, and that's nice, but can 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

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 year of evolution you still can't remember where you put your keys

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