Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (69 page)

Nicolelis, Miguel A. L.

1984
(Orwell)

Nixon, Richard

North Korea

Novoselov, Kostya,
4.1
,
4.2

Nuclear fission

Nuclear forces (weak and strong),
itr.1
,
7.1
,
7.2

Nuclear fusion

advantages as power source

energy potential of

hoaxes, frauds, and failures regarding

laser fusion,
5.1
,
5.2

magnetic field to create fusion

in nature

tabletop fusion

Nuclear rocket propulsion system

Nuclear waste

Nuclear weapons, dangers of

Obama, Barack,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4

Ohmae, Kenichi

Oil

OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes)

O’Neill, Gerard

Optical computers

Optogenetics

Organ replacement,
3.1
,
3.2

Orion Project

Orwell, George

Ottoman Empire

Ozone depletion

Pääbo, Svante

PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-Nuclei Astrophysics) satellite

Paper

Paperless office,
itr.1
,
itr.2

Parallel processing

Paris in the Twentieth Century
(Verne)

Parviz, Babak A.,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3

Pasquali, Matteo

Pasteur, Louis

Pattern recognition,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
7.1

Peck, Mason

Peek, Kim

Penfield, Wilder

Peopleless city,
itr.1
,
itr.2

Perfect capitalism

Perón, Juan

Picture of Dorian Gray, The
(Wilde)

Picture phones,
itr.1
,
itr.2

Planck energy

Planets outside the solar system, search for

Poggio, Tomaso

Pons, Stanley

Popular Mechanics
(magazine)

Population expansion

Post, Steven

Postrel, Virginia

Pournelle, Jerry

Predator drones,
2.1
,
2.2

Predicting the future

Cave Man Principle and

consciousness and

difficulty of

scientific understanding and

successful examples of,
itr.1
,
8.1

Principia
(Newton)

Printing technology

Privacy concerns

Programmable matter

Prostheses

Qin, Chinese Emperor

Quake, Stephen R.

Quantum computers

Quantum dot computers

Quantum theory

computers and,
1.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

medicine and

nanotechnology and

superconductors and

Railroad industry

Ramjet fusion propulsion system

Rasputin, Grigori

Rattner, Justin,
4.1
,
4.2

Reagan, Ronald

Recession of 2008,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1

Reeve, Christopher

Relativity, theory of

Remodeling in 2100

Replicators

Cave Man Principle and,
4.1
,
4.2

creation of anything with

feasibility issue

gray-goo scenario

living tissue, creation of

plastic 3-D images, creation of

self-assembly (bottom-up approach) to

social impact of

Resurrecting extinct life-forms

Resveratrol

Richter, Ronald

Robotics/AI

ASIMO robot,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

bodily enhancements

brain science and

Cave Man Principle and,
2.1
,
2.2

common sense and,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

consciousness and,
2.1
,
2.2

driverless cars

emotional robots

expert systems and

far future (2070)

friendly AI

history of

human job market and

human-robot merger

human-robot social interaction,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

immediate recognition and

medicine and,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

midcentury (2030)

mind control of robots by humans

modular robots,
2.1
,
4.1

musical robots

nanobots,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

near future (present to 2030)

pattern recognition and,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

remote-controlled and autonomous robots

reverse engineering the brain for

self-replicating robots,
2.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

singularity and

software limitations on

soldier robots

space travel and,
2.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4

surrogates and avatars

“takeover” threat posed by robots,
2.1
,
2.2

top-down and bottom-up approaches to,
2.1
,
2.2

Rohrer, Heinrich

Rose, Michael

RP-6 mobile robot

Rubin, Gerry

Rutan, Burt,
6.1
,
6.2

Sagan, Carl,
6.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

Scanning tunneling microscope

Schentag, Jerome

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Schrödinger, Erwin

Schultz, Tanja

Schuster, Stephan C.

Schwabl, Mike

Schwartz, Peter

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Second Life (Website)

Self-assembly

Self-awareness

Self-replicating robots,
2.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

Sen, Ayusman

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program

Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)

Shakespeare, William

Shape-shifting technology

Shaw, George Bernard

Shen, Weimin

Shopping in 2100,
9.1
,
9.2

Shostak, Seth

Silicon chips, limitations of,
1.1
,
1.2
,
4.1

Silva, Alcino

Simon, Herbert

Simon, Julian

Simonyi, Charles

Sinclair, David,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

Singapore

Singularity

Sirtuins

SixthSense project

6th Day, The
(movie)

Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind
(Condorcet)

Slingatron

Smalley, Richard,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Smart dust

Smith, Adam

Smith, Gerald

Social robotics

Solar power