The Origins of the Future

The Origins of the Future
Title The Origins of the Future PDF eBook
Author John Gribbin
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 314
Release 2007-12-01
Genre Science
ISBN 9780300125962

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How did the universe begin? Where do galaxies come from? Where do the material particles we are made of come from? Today we have only provisional answers to such questions, but this will improve dramatically over the next ten years, predicts astronomer Gribbin. He focuses on what we think we know about ten issues and explains how cutting-edge research may yield solutions in the very near future. He explores ideas concerning the creation of the universe, the possibility of other forms of life, and the fate of the expanding cosmos. He examines "theories of everything," including grand unified theories and string theory, and he discusses the Big Bang theory, the origin of structure and patterns of matter in the galaxies, dark mass and dark energy, the future of Earth and the Sun, and the possibility that the universe might expand forever.--From publisher description.

The History of the Future

The History of the Future
Title The History of the Future PDF eBook
Author Edward McPherson
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2017
Genre History
ISBN 9781566894678

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A collection of long essays centered on American places where the past is erupting into the present in unexpected ways.

A History of the Future

A History of the Future
Title A History of the Future PDF eBook
Author Peter J. Bowler
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 307
Release 2017-11-02
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1107148731

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A wide-ranging survey of predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology through the twentieth century.

The History of the Future

The History of the Future
Title The History of the Future PDF eBook
Author Blake J. Harris
Publisher HarperCollins
Pages 466
Release 2019-02-19
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 0062455982

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The dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual reality, by the bestselling author of Console Wars. Drawing on over a hundred interviews with the key players driving this revolution, The History of the Future weaves together a rich, cinematic narrative that captures the breakthroughs, breakdowns and human drama of trying to change the world. The result is a super accessible and supremely entertaining look at the birth of a game-changing new industry. From iconic books like Neuromancer to blockbuster films like The Matrix, virtual reality has long been hailed as the ultimate technology. But outside of a few research labs and military training facilities, this tantalizing vision of the future was nothing but science fiction. Until 2012, when Oculus founder Palmer Luckey—then just a rebellious teenage dreamer living alone in a camper trailer—invents a device that has the potential to change everything. With the help of a videogame legend, a serial entrepreneur and many other colorful characters, Luckey’s scrappy startup kickstarts a revolution and sets out to bring VR to the masses. As with most underdog stories, things don’t quite go according to plan. But what happens next turns out to be the ultimate entrepreneurial journey: a tale of battles won and lost, lessons learned and neverending twists and turns—including an unlikely multi-billion-dollar acquisition by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, which shakes up the landscape in Silicon Valley and gives Oculus the chance to forever change our reality. Drawing on over a hundred interviews with the key players driving this revolution, The History of the Future weaves together a rich, cinematic narrative that captures the breakthroughs, breakdowns and human drama of trying to change the world. The result is a super accessible and supremely entertaining look at the birth of a game-changing new industry.

A Brief History of the Future

A Brief History of the Future
Title A Brief History of the Future PDF eBook
Author Jacques Attali
Publisher Skyhorse
Pages 294
Release 2011-07-01
Genre History
ISBN 1628721332

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What will planet Earth be like in twenty years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with dangers. Attali anticipates an unraveling of American hegemony as transnational corporations sever the ties linking free enterprise to democracy. World tensions will be primed for horrific warfare for resources and dominance. The ultimate question is: Will we leave our children and grandchildren a world that is not only viable but better, or in this nuclear world bequeath to them a planet that will be a living hell? Either way, he warns, the time to act is now.

A Natural History of the Future

A Natural History of the Future
Title A Natural History of the Future PDF eBook
Author Rob Dunn
Publisher Hachette UK
Pages 298
Release 2022-01-20
Genre Science
ISBN 1399800159

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Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life's overlords, but we are instead at its mercy. In the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the power of natural selection to create biodiversity, and even the surprising life of the London Underground, Dunn finds laws of life that no human activity can annul. When we create artificial islands of crops, dump toxic waste, or build communities, we provide new materials for old laws to shape. Life's future flourishing is not in question. Ours is. A Natural History of the Future sets a new standard for understanding the diversity and destiny of life itself.

A Short History of the Future

A Short History of the Future
Title A Short History of the Future PDF eBook
Author W. Warren Wagar
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 348
Release 1999-08
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9780226869032

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Narrated by a far-future historian, Peter Jensen leaves an account of the world from the 1990s to the opening of the 23rd century as a gift to his granddaughter. A combination of fiction and scholarship, this third edition of Wagar's speculative history of the future alternates between descriptions of world events and intimate glimpses of this historian's family into the first centuries of the new millennium.