An Optimist's Tour of the Future
1st Edition
Published on 6. January 2011
256 pages
978-1-84765-433-5 (ISBN)
Description
Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanists (they intend to live forever), to Boston where he confronts a robot with mood swings, to an underwater cabinet meeting in the Indian Ocean, and Australia to question the Outback's smartest farmer. He clambers around space planes in the Mojave desert, gets to grips with the potential of nanotechnology, delves deep into the possibilities of biotech, sees an energy renaissance on a printer, a revolution in communications, has his genome profiled, and glimpses the next stage of human evolution ... and tries to make sense of what's in store.
Insightful and often very funny, An Optimist's Tour of the Future is a book that tracks one curious man's journey to find out what's in store.
Insightful and often very funny, An Optimist's Tour of the Future is a book that tracks one curious man's journey to find out what's in store.
Reviews / Votes
Certainly one of the most interesting science books I've read for a long time. * New Statesman * A rollicking roller-coaster ride around the cutting edge of science with dozens of laugh-out-loud moments * Scotsman * [A] grand tour of charismatic technologies and their prophets ... Stevenson bags an impressive list of interviewees * Financial Times * Infectiously enthusiastic * Sunday Times * His tools are curiosity, open-mindedness, clarity and reason. That makes his journey intriguing ... and ultimately exhilarating. -- Chris Anderson, Curator TED.comAll prices
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-84765-433-5 (9781847654335)
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Person
Mark Stevenson is a writer, entrepreneur and ideas broker who speaks regularly on future narratives, innovation, belief systems and learning. He has written for The Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and The New Statesman, and is the author of the critically acclaimed An Optimist's Tour of the Future, which is being turned into a TV series. He is an adviser to the Virgin Earth Challenge and Trillion Fund.
