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The Resource Soonish : ten emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

Soonish : ten emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

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What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already? Cartoonist Zach Weinersmith (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) and researcher Dr. Kelly Weinersmith give us a snapshot of what's coming next, from robot swarms to nuclear-fusion-powered toasters. By weaving their own research, interviews with the scientists who are making these advances happen, and Zach's trademark comics, the Weinersmiths investigate why these technologies are needed, how they would work, and what is standing in their way
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eng
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358 pages
Contents
  • Cheap access to space: The Final Frontier is too damn expensive
  • Asteroid mining: Rummaging through the Solar System's junkyard
  • Fusion power: It powers the sun, and that's nice, but can it run my toaster?
  • Programmable matter: What if all of your stuff could be any of your stuff?
  • Robotic construction: Build me a rumpus room, metal servant!
  • Augmented reality: An alternative to fixing reality
  • Synthetic biology: Kind of like Frankenstein, except the monster spends the whole book dutifully making medicine and industrial inputs
  • Precision medicine: Everything that's wrong with you in particular; a statistical approach
  • Bioprinting: Why stop at seven margaritas when you can just print a new liver?
  • Brain-computer interfaces: Because after four billion years of evolution you still can't remember where you put your keys
  • Conclusion: Less soonisher, or The graveyard of lost chapters
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9780399563843
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Soonish : ten emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything
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Soonish
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ten emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything
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Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
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Language
eng
Summary
What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already? Cartoonist Zach Weinersmith (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) and researcher Dr. Kelly Weinersmith give us a snapshot of what's coming next, from robot swarms to nuclear-fusion-powered toasters. By weaving their own research, interviews with the scientists who are making these advances happen, and Zach's trademark comics, the Weinersmiths investigate why these technologies are needed, how they would work, and what is standing in their way
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Booklist Editor's Choice/Adult Books for Young Adult 2017.
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Weinersmith, Kelly
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601/.12
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illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
T174
LC item number
.W543 2017
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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1982-
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Weinersmith, Zach
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  • Technological forecasting
  • Technological forecasting
  • Technological forecasting
  • Technology
  • SCIENCE
  • TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
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Soonish : ten emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
Cheap access to space: The Final Frontier is too damn expensive -- Asteroid mining: Rummaging through the Solar System's junkyard -- Fusion power: It powers the sun, and that's nice, but can it run my toaster? -- Programmable matter: What if all of your stuff could be any of your stuff? -- Robotic construction: Build me a rumpus room, metal servant! -- Augmented reality: An alternative to fixing reality -- Synthetic biology: Kind of like Frankenstein, except the monster spends the whole book dutifully making medicine and industrial inputs -- Precision medicine: Everything that's wrong with you in particular; a statistical approach -- Bioprinting: Why stop at seven margaritas when you can just print a new liver? -- Brain-computer interfaces: Because after four billion years of evolution you still can't remember where you put your keys -- Conclusion: Less soonisher, or The graveyard of lost chapters
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ocn981907964
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
358 pages
Isbn
9780399563843
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2017008654
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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n
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40027764692
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illustrations (chiefly color)
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regular print
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(OCoLC)981907964
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Soonish : ten emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Cheap access to space: The Final Frontier is too damn expensive -- Asteroid mining: Rummaging through the Solar System's junkyard -- Fusion power: It powers the sun, and that's nice, but can it run my toaster? -- Programmable matter: What if all of your stuff could be any of your stuff? -- Robotic construction: Build me a rumpus room, metal servant! -- Augmented reality: An alternative to fixing reality -- Synthetic biology: Kind of like Frankenstein, except the monster spends the whole book dutifully making medicine and industrial inputs -- Precision medicine: Everything that's wrong with you in particular; a statistical approach -- Bioprinting: Why stop at seven margaritas when you can just print a new liver? -- Brain-computer interfaces: Because after four billion years of evolution you still can't remember where you put your keys -- Conclusion: Less soonisher, or The graveyard of lost chapters
Control code
ocn981907964
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
358 pages
Isbn
9780399563843
Lccn
2017008654
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other control number
40027764692
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly color)
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)981907964

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