Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (65 page)

16
“Success or failure depends”:
Thurow, p. 72.

17
“The old motors of growth”:
McRae, pp. 12–13.

18
“we are told by the World Bank that nearly 2.8 billion people”:
Toffler, p. 288.

8. FUTURE OF HUMANITY: PLANETARY CIVILIZATION

1
“People will inevitably start to look around them”:
Kenichi Ohmae,
The End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies
(New York: Free Press, 1995), p. 45.

2
“It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried”:
Benjamin Franklin, letter to Joseph Priestley, quoted in Cornish, p. 173.

3
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life”:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/i/immanuel_kant_2.html
.

4
“The saddest aspect of society right now”:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_science4.html
.

5
“Democracy is the worst form of government”:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/democracy.html
.

6
“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed”:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_bernard_shaw_2.htm
.

7
“History is more or less bunk”:
quoted in Rhodes, p. 61.

9. A DAY IN THE LIFE IN 2100

1
“The Roots of Violence”:
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_roots_of_violence-wealth_without_work/191301.html
.

Archer, David.
The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Bezold, Clement, ed.
2020 Visions: Health Care Information Standards and Technologies.
Rockville, MD: United States Pharmacopeial Convention, 1993.

Brockman, Max, ed.
What’s Next? Dispatches on the Future of Science.
New York: Vintage, 2009.

Broderick, Damien.
The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies.
New York: Forge, 2001.

Broderick, Damien, ed.
Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge.
New York: Atlas, 2008,

Brooks, Rodney A.
Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us.
New York: Vintage, 2003.

Brown, Lester.
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
New York: Norton, 2009.

Canton, James.
The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5, 10, and 20 Years.
New York: Dutton, 2006.

Coates, Joseph F., John B. Mahaffie, and Andy Hines.
2025: Scenarios of U.S. and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology.
Greensboro, NC: Oakhill Press, 1997.

Cornish, Edward, ed.
Futuring: The Exploration of the Future.
Bethesda, MD: World Future Society, 2004.

Crevier, Daniel.
AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence.
New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Davies, Paul.
The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Denning, Peter J., ed.
The Invisible Future: The Seamless Integration of Technology into Everyday Life.
New York: McGraw Hill, 2002.

Denning, Peter J., and Robert M. Metcalfe.
Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing.
New York: Copernicus, 1997.

Dertouzos, Michael.
What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives.
New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

Didsbury, Howard F., Jr., ed.
Frontiers of the 21st Century: Prelude to the New Millennium.
Bethesda, MD: World Future Society, 1999.

———.
21st Century Opportunities and Challenges: An Age of Destruction or an Age of Transformation.
Bethesda, MD: World Future Society, 2003.

Dyson, Freeman J.
The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Foundation for the Future.
Future of Planet Earth: Seminar Proceedings.
Bellevue, WA: Foundation for the Future, 2009;
www.futurefoundation.org/publications/index.htm
.

———.
The Next Thousand Years.
Bellevue, WA: Foundation for the Future, 2004.

Friedman, George.
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century.
New York: Doubleday, 2009.

Hanson, William.
The Edge of Medicine: The Technology That Will Change Our Lives.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Kaku, Michio.
Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century.
New York: Anchor, 1998.

Kurzweil, Ray.
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.
New York: Viking, 2005.

McElheny, Victor K.
Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project.
New York: Basic Books, 2010.

McRae, Hamish.
The World in 2020: Power, Culture, and Prosperity.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School, 1995.

Mulhall, Douglas.
Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World.
Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2002.

Petersen, John L.
The Road to 2015: Profiles of the Future.
Corte Madera, CA: Waite Group, 1994.

Pickover, Clifford A., ed.
Visions of the Future: Art, Technology and Computing in the Twenty-first Century.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

Rhodes, Richard, ed.
Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines, Systems, and the Human World.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Ridley, Matt.
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves.
New York: HarperCollins, 2010.

Rose, Steven.
The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow’s Neuroscience.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Seife, Charles.
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking.
New York: Viking Penguin, 2008.

Sheffield, Charles, Marcelo Alonso, and Morton A. Kaplan, eds.
The World of 2044: Technological Development and the Future of Society.
St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1994.

Stock, Gregory.
Redesigning Humans: Choosing Our Genes, Changing Our Future.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Thurow, Lester C.
The Future of Capitalism: How Today’s Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow’s World.
New York: William Morrow, 1996.

Toffler, Alvin, and Heidi Toffler.
Revolutionary Wealth.
New York: Knopf, 2006.

van der Duin, Patrick.
Knowing Tomorrow? How Science Deals with the Future.
Delft, Netherlands: Eburon, 2007.

Vinge, Vernor.
Rainbows End.
New York: Tor, 2006.

Watson, Richard.
Future Files: The 5 Trends That Will Shape the Next 50 Years.
London: Nicholas Brealey, 2008.

Weiner, Jonathan.
Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality.
New York: HarperCollins, 2010.

Abacus, atomic version of

Abortion

Abrahams, Paul

Acting profession

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

Advanced Automation for Space Missions report

Advertising

Aging.
See
Longevity

AIBO robot

Air bags

Aldrin, Buzz,
6.1
,
6.2

Algae blooms

Alien civilizations

Allen, Paul,
6.1
,
8.1

Andrews, Dana

Angels and Demons
(Brown)

Animations, computer

Anthrax

Antimatter,
itr.1
,
6.1

Apophis (asteroid)

Armstrong, Neil

Artificial intelligence (AI).
See
Robotics/AI

Artificial vision

Artsutanov, Yuri

ASIMO robot,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

Asimov, Isaac,
2.1
,
6.1
,
8.1

ASPM gene

Asteroid landing

Atala, Anthony

Atomic force microscope

Augmented reality

Augustine Commission report,
6.1
,
6.2

Avatar
(movie),
1.1
,
2.1
,
6.1
,
7.1

Avatars

Backscatter X-rays

Back to the Future
movies,
5.1
,
5.2

Badylak, Stephen

Baldwin, David E.

Baltimore, David,
1.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

Benford, Gregory

Big bang research

Binnig, Gerd

Bioinformatics

Biotechnology.
See
Medicine/biotechnology

Birbaumer, Niels

Birth control