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Soonish - Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything (Paperback)
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Soonish - Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything (Paperback)
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The instant New York Times bestseller! A Wall Street Journal Best
Science Book of the Year! A Popular Science Best Science Book of
the Year! From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely
popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously
illustrated investigation into future technologies -- from how to
fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing What
will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And
why do we not have a lunar colony already? What is the hold-up? In
this smart and funny book, celebrated cartoonist Zach Weinersmith
and noted researcher Dr. Kelly Weinersmith give us a snapshot of
what's coming next -- from robot swarms to nuclear fusion
powered-toasters. By weaving their own research, interviews with
the scientists who are making these advances happen, and Zach's
trademark comics, the Weinersmiths investigate why these
technologies are needed, how they would work, and what is standing
in their way. New technologies are almost never the work of
isolated geniuses with a neat idea. 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. 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. 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. Soonish is the perfect gift for science lovers for the
holidays!
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