Where will we be in 2025? This fascinating book reveals the technology that's in prototype today, and will be commonplace tomorrow. Whether it's flying cars, space tourism, nanobots or airships, every page reveals an exciting and totally real vision of a future that is almost within our grasp.

 

 

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published in 2014 by Welbeck Publishing Group .

Joel Levy is a writer and journalist specialising in science, nature and technology for younger audiences. His writing explores both mainstream science and weird technology, from chemistry and physics to death-rays and biomimetic robots. After taking degrees in molecular biology and psychology at Warwick and Edinburgh, he has gone on to write books including Really Useful, the science and history of everyday technology; Poison: A Social history, on the science and lore of poisons; Newton's Notebooks, on the life and discoveries of Isaac Newton; Phobiapedia, an encyclopaedia of the things that scare us most; and A Bee in a Cathedral, exploring analogies and thought experiments in science, nature and technology.

This book has the following chapters: Robots and computers: Virtually there, Intelligent machines, Exoskeleton muscle suits, Caring robots, The computer of tomorrow, Teleportation; Shopping and Lifestyles: Future shopping, Retina display, Augmented Reality, Super-computer in your pocket, Smart homes and schools, Intelligent clothing, 3-D printing; Energy, Transport and the Environment: High speed trains, High speed trains, Nuclear fusion, Green Power, World hack, Fuel cells, Artificial plants, Passenger planes and Airships, Flying cars, A new age of sail, Laser-powered lightcraft, Telecommunication; Medicine and bioengineering: Medical nanobots, Prosthetics and enhancements, Bioengineering; Exploration: Private space flight, Space tourism, Asteroid mining, Sunken gold, Future of Inventing.