25 Things You Need to Know About the Future

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25 Things You Need to Know About the Future

Author(s): Christopher Barnatt (Author)

  • Publisher: Constable
  • Publication Date: 19 Jan. 2012
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 340 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1849016976
  • ISBN-13: 9781849016971

Book Description

The essential book for understanding the challenges and technologies that will shape the next few decades


How will we live in the future? And what will the human race become? Will we nurture designer babies, be served by intelligent robots, have personal 3D printers, and grow products on the vine using synthetic biology? Or will shortages of oil, fresh water and other natural resources constrain our lifestyles and lead to industrial decline?

In this fascinating guide, futurist Christopher Barnatt examines 25 known challenges and technologies that will help shape the next few decades. From Peak Water to vertical farms, nanotechnology to augmented reality, and electric cars to space travel, a startling picture is painted of future possibilities that no individual or business will be able to ignore.


Highlighting life-changing research and innovation from over 250 companies, universities and non-profit organizations around the globe, 25 Things You Need to Know About the Future is a startling, frightening and powerful blueprint for anybody who wants to future gaze or future shape.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A worthwhile read for anyone curious to know what may await us. –New Scientist

In all, 25 Things You Need to Know About the Future is an exciting, yet realistic and believable, vision of future life on Earth. –The Futurist

About the Author

Christopher Barnatt is Associate Professor of Computing & Future Studies in Nottingham University Business School, and the author of ExplainingComputers.com, ExplainingTheFuture.com and their popular YouTube channels. He has written five previous books on computing and future studies, and lectures and consults widely on cloud computing and Web 2.0. Christopher also appears regularly on TV and the radio. You can follow him in the cloud at twitter.com/ChrisBarnatt.

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