Author: Weinersmith, Kelly
Author 2: Weinersmith, Zach
Narrator: Weinersmith, Kelly
Weinersmith, Zach
Format: MP3
Unabridged
Approx. 10 hours
New Release Nonfiction
Nonfiction-General
January 2020
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Summary: What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already? What is the hold-up? The Weinersmiths investigate why these technologies are needed, how they would work, and what is standing in their way. New technologies are almost never the work of isolated geniuses with a neat idea. A given future technology may need any number of intermediate technologies to develop first, and many of these critical advances may appear to be irrelevant when they are first discovered. The journey to progress is full of strange detours and blind alleys that tell us so much about the human mind and the march of civilization. To this end, Soonish investigates ten different emerging fields, from programmable matter to augmented reality, from space elevators to robotic construction, to show us the amazing world we will have, you know, soonish.