Social forecasting, future studies
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Dance of the photons
£10.99Dance of the photons
Einstein refused to accept aspects of quantum theory, deriding the notion of instantaneous communication between faraway ‘entangled’ particles as ‘spooky action at a distance’. This playful yet deep book takes readers through a series of ingenious experiments conducted in various locations. From a dank sewage tunnel under the River Danube to the balmy air between a pair of mountain peaks in the Canary Islands, with various time-travel paradoxes explained along the way, the author and his fictional physics students Alice and Bob demonstrate the true nature of quantum entanglement and teleportation using photons, or light quanta, created by laser beams. The ideas described have laid the foundations for a new era of quantum technology, including the development of quantum computers and much more.
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Future Hackers
£12.99Future Hackers
An indispensable guide to the upcoming profound technological, social and cultural developments
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Future stories
£10.99Future stories
Here is a user’s guide to the future from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the fate of the galaxy, and the last black hole.
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The Age of Resilience
£22.00The Age of Resilience
A wide-ranging look at the political, economic and cultural effects of the global shift from an economy based on efficiency to one based on resilience.
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The age of resilience
£12.99The age of resilience
‘The Age of Resilience’ is a wide-ranging look at the political, economic and cultural effects of the global shift from an economy based on efficiency to one based on resilience. Humans have long believed we could force the natural world to adapt to us; only now are we beginning to face the fact that it is we who will have to adapt to survive and thrive in an unpredictable natural world. A massive transformation of our economy (and with it the way we live our lives) has already begun. Jeremy Rifkin describes this great transformation and its profound effect on the way we think about the meaning of our existence, our economy, and how we govern ourselves as the earth rewilds around us.
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The machine age
£25.00The machine age
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity’s relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next.
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The skeptics’ guide to the future
£10.99The skeptics’ guide to the future
Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. Whether they be the outlandish leaps predicted in the 1920s, like multi-purpose utility belts with climate control capabilities and planes the size of luxury cruise ships, or the forecasts of the ’60s, which didn’t anticipate the sexual revolution or women’s liberation, the path to the present is littered with failed predictions and incorrect estimations. The best we can do is try to absorb from futurism’s checkered past, perhaps learning to do a little better. In ‘The Skeptics’ Guide To The Future,’ Steven Novella and his co-authors build upon the work of futurists of the past by examining what they got right, what they got wrong, and how they came to those conclusions.
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Volt rush
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