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An Optimist's Tour of the Future (Paperback, Main) Loot Price: R278
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An Optimist's Tour of the Future (Paperback, Main)

Mark Stevenson

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Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanists (they intend to live forever), to Boston where he confronts a robot with mood swings, to an underwater cabinet meeting in the Indian Ocean, and Australia to question the Outback's smartest farmer. He clambers around space planes in the Mojave desert, gets to grips with the potential of nanotechnology, delves deep into the possibilities of biotech, sees an energy renaissance on a printer, a revolution in communications, has his genome profiled, and glimpses the next stage of human evolution ... and tries to make sense of what's in store. Insightful and often very funny, An Optimist's Tour of the Future is a book that tracks one curious man's journey to find out what's in store.

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Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2012
First published: July 2012
Authors: Mark Stevenson
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 334
Edition: Main
ISBN-13: 978-1-84668-357-2
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > Social forecasting, futurology
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LSN: 1-84668-357-2
Barcode: 9781846683572

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