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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Understanding what we consider socially valuable will help us predict which future technologies will succeed.
Chapter 3: Computers will reshape even mundane products, transforming every aspect of our daily lives.
Chapter 4: Augmented reality technologies will give consumers unprecedented power and information.
Chapter 5: By century’s end, genetic breakthroughs could consign cancer to history.
Chapter 6: Computers will continuously track our health, transforming how we receive medical care.
Chapter 7: Genetic advances and stem-cell breakthroughs could massively lengthen human life.
Chapter 8: Humanity’s survival depends on solving our mounting environmental and structural crises.
Chapter 9: Magnetic forces will power the next generation of transportation.
Chapter 10: Decoding the brain will usher in a transformative age of artificial intelligence.
Chapter 11: Mind-controlled technology will let us command computers using pure thought.
Chapter 12: Creating genuine artificial intelligence will require us to share the world with new life-forms.
Chapter 13: Being perpetually plugged into digital realms will erase the boundary between virtual and real.
Description
Physics of the Future (2011) lays out predictions of future technology based on the works and opinions of experts on the cutting edge of physics, genetics, biology and computer science. The author explores some of the hurdles we will have to overcome in order to develop these future technologies, and what fundamental changes we can expect their presence to make on our society.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in cutting-edge science
- Anyone interested in future technologies
- Anyone interested in the future of humanity
- Anyone with a great imagination