Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (66 page)

Bismarck, Otto von

Blade Runner
(movie)

Blue Gene computer

Blümich, Bernhard,
1.1
,
1.2

Boeing Corporation

Booster-rocket technologies

Bova, Ben,
5.1
,
5.2

Boys from Brazil, The
(movie)

Brain

artificial body parts, adaptation to

basic structure of

emotions and

growing a human brain

Internet contact lenses and

locating every neuron in

as neural network

parallel processing in

reverse engineering of

simulations of

“Brain drain” to the United States

BrainGate device

Brain injuries, treatment for

Branson, Richard

Brave New World
(Huxley)

Breast cancer

Breazeal, Cynthia

Brenner, Sydney

Brooks, Rodney,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1

Brown, Dan

Brown, Lester

Buckley, William F.

Bush, George W.

Bussard, Robert W.,
6.1
,
6.2

Caloric restriction

Cameron, James

Campbell, E. Michael

Campbell, Jason

Cancer,
3.1
,
3.2

Cancer Genome Project

Cancer screening

Cancer therapies,
1.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
9.1

Canton, James

Capitalism,
4.1
.
See also
Intellectual capitalism

Carbon nanotubes,
4.1
,
6.1

Carbon sequestration

Cars

driverless

electric

maglev,
5.1
,
9.1

Cascio, Jamais

Catoms

Cave Man Principle

biotechnology and

computer animations and

predicting the future and

replicators and,
4.1
,
4.2

robotics/AI and,
2.1
,
2.2

sports and

Cerf, Vint,
4.1
,
6.1

Chalmers, David

Charles, Prince of Wales

Chemotherapy

Chernobyl nuclear accident

Chevy Volt

Chinese Empire,
7.1
,
7.2

Church, George

Churchill, Winston,
itr.1
,
8.1

Cipriani, Christian

Civilizations

alien civilizations

characteristics of various Types

entropy and

information processing and

resistance to Type I civilization

rise and fall of great empires

rise of civilization on Earth

science and wisdom, importance of

transition from Type 0 to Type I,
itr.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

Type II civilizations,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

Type III civilizations,
8.1
,
8.2

waste heat and

Clarke, Arthur C.

Clausewitz, Carl von

Cloning,
3.1
,
3.2

Cloud computing,
1.1
,
7.1

Cochlear implants

Code breaking

Collins, Francis

Comets

Common sense,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
7.1
,
7.2

Computers

animations created by

augmented reality

bioinformatics

brain simulations

carbon nanotubes and

cloud computing,
1.1
,
7.1

digital divide

DNA computers

driverless cars

exponential growth of computer power (Moore’s law),
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
4.1

fairy tale life and

far future (2070)

four stages of technology and

Internet glasses and contact lenses,
1.1
,
1.2

medicine and

midcentury (2030)

mind control of

molecular and atomic transistors

nanotechnology and

near future (present to 2030)

optical computers

parallel processing

physics of computer revolution

quantum computers

quantum dot computers

quantum theory and,
1.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

scrap computers

self-assembly and

silicon chips, limitations of,
1.1
,
1.2
,
4.1

telekinesis with

3-D technology

universal translators

virtual reality

wall screens

See also
Mind reading
;
Robotics/AI

Condorcet, Marquis de

Conscious robots,
2.1
,
2.2

Constellation Program

COROT satellite,
6.1
,
8.1

Crick, Francis

Criminology

Crutzen, Paul

Culture in Type I civilization

Customization of products

Cybertourism,
itr.1
,
itr.2

CYC project

Damasio, Antonio

Dating in 2100,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

Davies, Stephen

Da Vinci robotic system

Dawkins, Richard,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

Dawn computer

Dean, Thomas

Decoherence problem

Deep Blue computer,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

Delayed gratification

DEMO fusion reactor

Depression treatments

Designer children,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

Developing nations,
7.1
,
7.2

Diamandis, Peter

Dictatorships

Digital divide

Dinosaur resurrection

Disease, elimination of,
3.1
,
8.1

DNA chips

DNA computers

Dog breeds

Donoghue, John,
1.1
,
1.2

Dreams, photographing of

Drexler, Eric

Driverless cars

Duell, Charles H.

Dyson, Freeman,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
8.1

Dyson sphere

Ebola virus

Economics

bubbles and crashes

entertainment industry,
7.1
,
7.2

far future (2070)

four stages of technology and

fundamental forces of the universe and

job market,
7.1
,
7.2

midcentury (2030)

near future (present to 2030)

science and technology as engines of prosperity

Type I civilization and

See also
Intellectual capitalism

Edison, Thomas,
5.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

Education,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
1.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1