Jonathan Margolis

A Brief History of Tomorrow (eBook, ePUB)

How The Experts Usually Screw Up (Future Forecasting)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating look at the future, as you've never seen it.

Ten years from now, will we have a tiny personal computer surgically inserted in an earlobe, capable of connecting to phone lines and the internet? Fifty years from now, will atomic-sized robots replace surgeons? A hundred years from now, instead of taking the bus, will we simply teleport to work? It all may sound like impossible science fiction, but not too long ago, so did walking on the moon. Journalist Jonathan Margolis interviews leading thinkers in such fields as genetics, medicine, neurobiology, quantum physics, robotics, computer science, and space travel to explore where we're going, and what it will look like when - and if - we get there.

Beginning with famously flawed past visions of the future - among them H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates - Margolis examines many of the strange and tempting futures that may lie in store for us. Politics, society, religion, and work are all destined for great changes. What might they be? How will they come about? Thought-provoking, amusing, and absolutely original, A Brief History of Tomorrow is a deliciously compelling look at something we all spend a lot of time contemplating: the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apostrophe Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781908556202
• Artikelnr.: 38365883

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Margolis is a journalist and author who writes for the Financial Times, The Guardian and the Daily Mail among other publications. He specialises in technology, but also writes on China, along with a variety of quirkier, mostly scientific, subjects that interest him. His first book was Hothouse People: Can We Create Super Human Beings? (Pan 1987, with Jane Walmsley). His most recent books were A Brief History of Tomorrow (Bloomsbury 2000), which analysed the successes and failures of futurologists, and O: The Intimate History of the Orgasm (Century 2004). Jonathan lives in London with the author Sue Margolis and their family. See Jonathan's technology reviews and videos at www.howtospendit.com/#/themes/technology