TY - BOOK AU - Weinersmith,Kelly AU - Weinersmith,Zach TI - Soonish: : ten emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything SN - 9780399563843 U1 - 601.12 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Press KW - Technological forecasting KW - Popular works KW - Pictorial works KW - Humor N1 - 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 ER -