Probable Tomorrows: How Science and Technology will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty Years

Cetron, Marvin and Davies, Owen

ISBN 10: 0312154291 / ISBN 13: 9780312154295

Published by St Martin's Press, New York, 1997

About this Item

xvi, 298 pages, appendix: a timetable for the future, index. Papered boards in dust-jacket. The book 'looks at near-future advances, inventions, products, services, and everyday conveniences that will change how we live and work'. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 020099

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Probable Tomorrows: How Science and Technology will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty Years
• Publisher: St Martin's Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312154291
• ISBN 13: 9780312154295
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science, Technical & Mathematics
  • Americana & Canadiana

About this title

Synopsis

A fascinating look at near-future advances, inventions, products, services, and everyday conveniences that will change how we live and work. Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies explore these changes and the impact they will have on everyday life. For example, by the year 2010:

-Personal computers will offer the power of today's supermachines and artificial intelligence.
-A telecommunications network will supply the world with services from the contents of the Library of Congress to pornographic videos in Cantonese.
-The United States-reversing a decades-old trend-will link its major cities with hig-speed railroads.
-Airplanes will be capable of leaping halfway around the world in just two hours.
-Consumer goods will be produced at prices so low the poor of tomorrow could live as well as the rich of today.
-Scientists will have learned to purge the air of pollution, closing up the Antarctic ozone hole and ending the threat of global warming.
-Heavy industries can move into space, so that Earth can recover from our past environmental follies.
-Dramatic advances in gene mapping and organ transplants will extend the healthy human life span well beyond the century mark.

Science and technology have dominated life in developed countries since the Industrial Revolution. In the twenty-first century, the will change it almost beyond recognition. Probable Tomorrows tells us how.

About the Author

Marvin Cetron is founder and president of Forecasting International and has consulted to over half of the Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and to various government agencies here and abroad. He lives in Virginia.

Owen Davies is a former senior editor at Omni magazine and a freelance writer specializing in science, technology, and the future. He lives in New Hampshire.

Together, they are the authors of Crystal Globe, Educational Renaissance, and American Renaissance.