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Welcome to the Future

Robot Friends, Fusion Energy, Pet Dinosaurs, and More!

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Have you ever wondered what the future may look like? In this book, you'll explore 10 ways technology could alter our way of life. The challenge for you is to decide which changes you want for yourself and the world.

In the future, will we teleport from place to place, keep dinosaurs as pets or 3D-print our dinner? Will we live on Mars or upload our brains to computers? Could we solve climate change by making all our energy from mini stars we build here on earth?
This fascinating and thought provoking book from science writer Kathryn Hulick explores the possible futures humanity will face, and how we will live as the world around us changes beyond our recognition.
From genetic engineering and building floating colonies in space to developing telepathic technology and bionic body alterations, this engagingly illustrated book looks into the possible future technologies which will shape how we live and how we adapt to the challenges of the future.
In this book, you'll meet the scientists working to bring science fiction to life and learn how soon we might have amazing new technology. You'll also delve deep into questions about right and wrong. Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should. How can we build the best possible future for everyone on Earth?

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      July 15, 2021
      Forget personal jet packs, flying cars, and food pills--welcome to a coming world of robot servants, gene splicing, really long life spans, and fusion power. In what is more a set of speculative thought pieces than specific predictions, Hulick gathers sound-bite quotes from dozens of researchers and embeds them in general ruminations on the directions that new technology seems to be taking us in fields from cybernetics and space colonization to the search for better energy sources. A focus on the positive leads her to mention but downplay troubling issues such as the already-scary hackability of the internet of things and the near possibility (more likely probability) of "designer babies." She also argues that artificial intelligence will never trump the human sort because it intrinsically lacks "common sense" and lays out a broadly brushed future scenario in which robots will do all the work while people, on universal basic incomes, enjoy a "never-ending vacation." Sure. She also regards the use of wind and other renewable power sources as just placeholders until atomic fusion becomes practical, and looks to next-generation 3-D printers she calls "maker machines" to feed the world. Wolski's blocky paintings, more retro than futuristic, add unimaginative images of generic gizmos or human figures of diverse racial presentations playing with a pet robo-dog, strolling among dinosaurs, climbing out of TARDIS-like teleportation booths, posing in lab coats, or rumbling past on a toddler assembly line. (This book was reviewed digitally.) An optimistic if superficial overview of our brave new (technological) world. (Speculative nonfiction. 10-13)

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