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Uniform Title What's next? (London, England)
Title What the future looks like : scientists predict the next great discoveries and reveal how today's breakthroughs are shaping our world / edited by Jim Al-Khalili.

Publication Info. New York : The Experiment, LLC, 2018.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  501 AL-KHALILI    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  501 WHAT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  509 WHA    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  501 AL-KHALILI    Check Shelf
Description 240 pages ; 21 cm
Note Originally published as: What's next? / edited by Jim Al-Khalili (London : Profile Books, 2017).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The future of our planet : demographics, conservation, and climate change -- The future of us : medicine, genetics, and transhumanism -- The future online : AI, quantum computing, and the internet -- Making the future : engineering, transportation, and energy -- The far future : time travel, the apocalypse, and living in space.
Summary "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 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. The scientists in the 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"--From back cover.
Subject Science -- Forecasting.
Technological forecasting.
Science -- Forecasting. (OCoLC)fst01108253
Technological forecasting. (OCoLC)fst01144998
Added Author Al-Khalili, Jim, 1962- editor.
Ball, Philip, 1962- Demographics.
Vince, Gaia. Biosphere.
Slingo, Julia, 1950- Climate change.
Kucharski, Adam. Future of medicine.
Prasad, Aarathi. Genomics and genetic engineering.
Rutherford, Adam. Synthetic biology.
Walker, Mark (Mark Alan). Transhumanism.
Climer, Naomi. Cloud and "internet of things"
Woodward, Alan. Cybersecurity.
Boden, Margaret A. Artificial intelligence.
Hensinger, Winfried K. Quantum computing.
Ploszajski, Anna. Smart materials.
Hardy, Jeff. Energy.
Miles, John. Transportation.
Sharkey, Noel. Robotics.
Preston, Louisa. Interstellar travel and colonizing the solar system.
Dartnell, Lewis. Apocalypse.
Al-Khalili, Jim, 1962- Teleportation and time travel.
Other Form: Online version: New York : The Experiment, [2018] 9781615194711 (DLC) 2017060642
ISBN 9781615194704 (pbk.)
1615194703 (pbk.)
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