Download PDF What the Future Looks Like Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries_and Reveal How Today Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World Jim AlKhalili 9781615194704 Books
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Science fact, not science fiction, on the cutting–edge developments that are already changing the course of our future
Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn’t every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award–winning author Jim Al–Khalili and his team of top-notch experts explain how today’s earthshaking discoveries will shape our world tomorrow—and beyond.
Pull back the curtain on
And find insight into big–picture questions such as
Will we find a cure to all diseases? The answer to climate change? And will bionics one day turn us into superheroes?
The scientists in these pages are interested only in the truth—reality–based and speculation–free. The future they conjure is by turns tantalizing and sobering There’s plenty to look forward to, but also plenty to dread. And undoubtedly the best way to for us to face tomorrow’s greatest challenges is to learn what the future looks like—today.
Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn’t every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award–winning author Jim Al–Khalili and his team of top-notch experts explain how today’s earthshaking discoveries will shape our world tomorrow—and beyond.
Pull back the curtain on
- genomics
- robotics
- AI
- the “Internet of Things”
- synthetic biology
- transhumanism
- interstellar travel
- colonization of the solar system
- teleportation
- and much more
And find insight into big–picture questions such as
Will we find a cure to all diseases? The answer to climate change? And will bionics one day turn us into superheroes?
The scientists in these pages are interested only in the truth—reality–based and speculation–free. The future they conjure is by turns tantalizing and sobering There’s plenty to look forward to, but also plenty to dread. And undoubtedly the best way to for us to face tomorrow’s greatest challenges is to learn what the future looks like—today.
Download PDF What the Future Looks Like Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries_and Reveal How Today Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World Jim AlKhalili 9781615194704 Books
"Manages to be fairly detailed despite the breadth. Would highly recommend."
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What the Future Looks Like Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries_and Reveal How Today Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World Jim AlKhalili 9781615194704 Books Reviews :
What the Future Looks Like Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries_and Reveal How Today Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World Jim AlKhalili 9781615194704 Books Reviews
- Manages to be fairly detailed despite the breadth. Would highly recommend.
- Wonderful read. Like being a kid again and seeing a whole other world.
- Each chapter is very-well written, and the book is well-deserved edited. It is refreshing to read a collection of articles on many topics of interest written by researchers for the layperson.
- Comparing our President to a natural disaster in the first 215 seconds of the audio-book. Spot on.
- Comparing our President to a natural disaster in the first 215 seconds of the audio-book, it literally was the fastest Audible purchase and return I've ever made. It's tech keep the politics out of it.
