An Optimist's Tour of the Future
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 nex…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84668-357-2
- EAN: 9781846683572
- Produktnummer: 12453387
- Verlag: Profile Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.9 cm x D2.1 cm 234 g
- Auflage: Main
- Gewicht: 234
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Mark Stevenson is a writer, entrepreneur and ideas broker who speaks regularly on future narratives, innovation, belief systems and learning. He has written for The Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and The New Statesman, and is the author of the critically acclaimed An Optimist's Tour of the Future, which is being turned into a TV series. He is an adviser to the Virgin Earth Challenge and Trillion Fund.
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