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An Optimist's Tour of the Future
Mark Stevenson
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Description for An Optimist's Tour of the Future
Paperback. The author has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. This book tracks one curious man's journey to find out what's in store. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFR; PDA; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 276.
Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanists (they intend to live forever), to Boston where he confronts a robot with mood swings, to an underwater cabinet meeting in the Indian Ocean, and Australia to question the Outback's smartest farmer. He clambers around space planes in the Mojave desert, gets to grips with the potential of nanotechnology, delves deep into the possibilities of biotech, sees an energy renaissance on a printer, ... Read more
Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanists (they intend to live forever), to Boston where he confronts a robot with mood swings, to an underwater cabinet meeting in the Indian Ocean, and Australia to question the Outback's smartest farmer. He clambers around space planes in the Mojave desert, gets to grips with the potential of nanotechnology, delves deep into the possibilities of biotech, sees an energy renaissance on a printer, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846683572
SKU
V9781846683572
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About Mark Stevenson
Mark Stevenson is a writer, entrepreneur and ideas broker who speaks regularly on future narratives, innovation, belief systems and learning. He has written for The Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and The New Statesman, and is the author of the critically acclaimed An Optimist's Tour of the Future, which is being turned into a TV series. He is an adviser ... Read more
Reviews for An Optimist's Tour of the Future
Certainly one of the most interesting science books I've read for a long time.
New Statesman
A rollicking roller-coaster ride around the cutting edge of science with dozens of laugh-out-loud moments
Scotsman
[A] grand tour of charismatic technologies and their prophets ... Stevenson bags an impressive list of interviewees
Financial Times
Infectiously enthusiastic
... Read more
New Statesman
A rollicking roller-coaster ride around the cutting edge of science with dozens of laugh-out-loud moments
Scotsman
[A] grand tour of charismatic technologies and their prophets ... Stevenson bags an impressive list of interviewees
Financial Times
Infectiously enthusiastic
... Read more