![]() ![]() Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World, by Eamonn Kelly (Wharton School/Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005/275 pages). A similar theme is found in Three Billion New Capitalists by Clyde Prestowitz (Basic Books, 2005/321 pages), but with even greater emphasis on China and India. Mainstream best-seller describes the forces that have flattened the global economic playing field. Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005/488 pages). The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas L. The extraordinary illustrations in this book offer a glimpse of possible landscapes and atmospheres that almost certainly adorn alien worlds and may support life. The universe has at least 100 billion galaxies, each with some 100 billion stars, and there may be a billion or more rocky planets the size of Earth, some of which are habitable. Cook (University of California Press, 2005/252 pages). Infinite Worlds: An Illustrated Voyage to Planets Beyond Our Sun, by Ray Villard and Lynnette R. Developments for the next decade are described for household, construction and industrial services the military AI companion pets and playmates care for the elderly and disabled, molecular-sized nanorobots, and multi-robot systems in space or under the sea. Autonomous, intelligent machines will proliferate in the next few years and will play a major role in our lives. ![]() The chief scientist at Nanorex describes molecular manipulation and the probable potential in the next 25 years for quantum nanocomputers, self-replication, engines too small to see, nanomedicine, the personal synthesizing manufacturing system, extreme artificial intelligence, and more.Īutonomous Robots, by George A. ![]() Storrs Hall (Prometheus Books, 2005/333 pages). Nanofuture: What’s Next for Nanotechnology? by J. Kurzweil explainse, for instance, how nanobots (molecular-level robots) will reverse human aging and vastly extend human intelligence. Developments in various technologies will come together to allow us to live longer and smarter. The “singularity” foretells a time within the next few decades when technological change will be so rapid and deep that human life will be irreversibly transformed. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, by Ray Kurzweil (Viking, 2005/652 pages). Its goal is to be the “best big-picture guide to 21st century foresight.” Circa 2006, these were considered to be among the finest non-fiction books on futures topics: It includes input by global futurists, it is extremely comprehensive, it is available free online and it is open to comments and suggested edits and additions. The most comprehensive futures studies book released in the first decades of the 2000s is “The Foresight Guide” by John Smart. Nanotechnology expert Robert Freitas’s Molecular siteĬlick here to do an up-to-date search right now for the latest non-fiction books on futures topics. The Long Bets Foundation – Accountable Predictions ![]() Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence Network SITES – For online information about the future, try these links: ![]()
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