Condition: Used, Like new. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The cover may show slight wear on the corners. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages.

Details: What the Future Looks Like, Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World, by Jim Al-Khalili

ISBN: 978-1615194704

Pages: 240

Published: 2018

Science fact, not science fiction, on the cutting-edge developments that are already changing the course of our future Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn't every da vou hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award-winning author Jim Al-Khalili and his team of top-notch experts explain how today's earthshaking discover- ies will shape our world tomorrow-and beyond. Pull back the curtain on: -genomics -robotics -AI -the "Internet of Things" -synthetic biology -transhumanism -interstellar travel -colonization of the solar system -teleportation -and much more And find insight into big-picture questions such as: Will we find a cure to all diseases? The answer to climate change? And will bionics one day turn us into superheroes? The scientists in these pages are interested only in the truth- reality-based and speculation-free. The future they conjure is by turns tantalizing and sobering: There's plenty to look forward to, but also plenty to dread. And undoubtedly the best way to for us to face tomor- row's greatest challenges is to learn what the future looks like-today. "A collection of mind-boggling essays that are just the thing for firing up your brain cells."-Saga magazine Theoretical physicist, author, and broadcaster JIM AL-KHALILI's numer. ous other books include Quantum and Paradox. In 2016 he received the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication.