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Author: Joel Levy Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 1588346706 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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A rich visual history of science fiction's impact on real-world technologies, this book is perfect for lovers of H. G. Wells, Star Trek, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Aldous Huxley, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Have you ever wished for a personal jet pack or a robot butler? Do you wonder how you would fare as an interplanetary traveler? Are you eagerly awaiting driverless cars? Reality Ahead of Schedule explores how what we imagine about the future has influenced our ability to make those ideas into reality. There are many vital technologies that science fiction not only predicted, but also helped bring into being. Through lively narration and lavish illustrations, the book presents technological developments in the military, consumer, space exploration, medical, and communications fields. It explores the writers, futurists, and far-sighted inventors whose visions became realities, from the direct influence of H. G. Wells on the atomic bomb and the tank, to the ambitious prototypes created by inventors ahead of their time, such as Nikola Tesla's remote-controlled drone ship. The history and development of each technology is related in context, exploring the road from prescient fictional representation to real-life technology. Reality Ahead of Schedule offers readers the chance to meet and understand the impact of some of the greatest names and works in sci-fi, from Jules Verne and Aldous Huxley to Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov, Star Trek to the Bionic Man, alongside visionary inventors such as Tesla and Wernher von Braun.
Author: Joel Levy Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 1588346706 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A rich visual history of science fiction's impact on real-world technologies, this book is perfect for lovers of H. G. Wells, Star Trek, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Aldous Huxley, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Have you ever wished for a personal jet pack or a robot butler? Do you wonder how you would fare as an interplanetary traveler? Are you eagerly awaiting driverless cars? Reality Ahead of Schedule explores how what we imagine about the future has influenced our ability to make those ideas into reality. There are many vital technologies that science fiction not only predicted, but also helped bring into being. Through lively narration and lavish illustrations, the book presents technological developments in the military, consumer, space exploration, medical, and communications fields. It explores the writers, futurists, and far-sighted inventors whose visions became realities, from the direct influence of H. G. Wells on the atomic bomb and the tank, to the ambitious prototypes created by inventors ahead of their time, such as Nikola Tesla's remote-controlled drone ship. The history and development of each technology is related in context, exploring the road from prescient fictional representation to real-life technology. Reality Ahead of Schedule offers readers the chance to meet and understand the impact of some of the greatest names and works in sci-fi, from Jules Verne and Aldous Huxley to Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov, Star Trek to the Bionic Man, alongside visionary inventors such as Tesla and Wernher von Braun.
Author: Alison Stein Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing ISBN: 1598586025 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 546
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We would all like the world to become a better place. Laws and programs are helpful and are designed with good intentions, but there’s only so much they can do. It really comes down to each person doing his part to live life as problem-free as possible for him. Since no one is an island unto himself, anyone’s lack of personal responsibility or good ethics affects others – whether just those close to him or the general population. We all hope to live a happy life. However, hoping is not the most effective way to ensure you reach that very important goal. Instead of relying on the remote possibility of consistent GOOD LUCK, learn how to consider, prepare for, and optimally handle nearly every situation you might encounter in life to ensure that you reap rewards for the efforts you have to expend to live either way. Discover how you can become a more knowledgeable, resilient and worthwhile contributor to society by improving your own life! Feel earned pride and deserved respect at any socioeconomic level. Learn how to create the optimal circumstances in areas of your life such as: RELATIONSHIPS, FINANCES, SELF-CARE, SEX, DRUGS, LAWS, RAISING CHILDREN, and more. Lead by example and make your life as problem-free as it can be. Then encourage others to do the same. One-by-one *AND* with detailed information on how to do it, WE CAN make the world a better place. Best wishes and thank you for doing your part. Even more gratitude if you encourage others to do the same. We can do this.
Author: Dana L. Turner Publisher: Archway Publishing ISBN: 1665744758 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 253
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The world is scientifically broken, with protagonists, antagonists, and others battling it out, attempting to hold on to centuries-old, flawed beliefs. Reality, in No Particular Order allows you to look at the world without wearing the rose-colored glasses from your school days. The author challenges numerous assumptions, particularly global warming. The threat, he argues, is not carbon dioxide but rather unconstitutional government edicts intended to take away your freedom using “monster under the bed” tactics. He writes, “For decades, the world stage has been set ablaze by various governmental agencies and their toadies in the media using contrived atmospheric models to promote the idea of global warming and climate change with the only result being increased regulation. Has even one of a myriad of predicted worldwide disasters been mitigated over the past fifty years, or is there an ever-increasing number waiting to destroy us? Centuries ago, Aesop wrote a fable about a boy who cried wolf. The current book of fables is a greatly enlarged, modern edition written by ‘scientists’, edited by the government, and peddled by ignorant, overbearing celebrities, and billionaires who wish to control you by frightening you with imaginary wolves.”
Author: Michael Green Publisher: Titan Comics ISBN: 1787733246 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 114
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In 2019, the Blade Runner known as Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina rescued Cleo Selwyn, daughter of business tycoon Alexandra Selwyn, from a plot to give the girl to the Tyrell corporation for genetic experimentation. Ash and Cleo escaped Los Angeles and disappeared. Now, seven years later and living under assumed identities, Ash and Cleo have resurfaced on one of the Off-world mining colonies. But Cleo’s father has never stopped looking for them, sending out dozens of bounty hunters and search parties to kill Ash and bring his daughter home. Now, following a bloody Replicant mutiny, Ash and Cleo have become separated and a ruthless new Blade Runner called Hythe has Ash dead in her sights. Collects Blade Runner 2019 #5-8. “10 out of 10. A must-read title.” – Bleeding Cool
Author: Jane Peranteau Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing ISBN: 1612833349 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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Jumping is a work of visionary fiction that begins with a nihilistic act. The main character, a young man, feels life’s limits are killing him, drives to a remote area, walks 100 yards, and leaps into a dark and mysterious chasm, known locally as the “Void.” Friends and family are stunned. What he meets in the Void is his own larger spiritual history—a cohort of souls he incarnated with, a string of past lives he visits—and he’s changed profoundly and permanently. Because of his story, others jump. What are they jumping to? Duncan Robert is the first to jump. No one saw him do it, but some claim they felt something at the moment he jumped—a sort of missed beat, or skip, in the order of things. The Void waits in the woods just outside of town and has for as long as anyone can remember, though no one knows why. In the tradition of The Celestine Prophecy and Mutant Message Down Under, this teaching fable explores the necessity of taking risks, life beyond the limits and time and space, and humanity’s place in the universe. "In a way, Jumping is similar to spiritually directed fantasy or channeled work. I’ve never written anything like it and typically don’t read anything like it, so I’m short on language to describe it. It’s metaphysical and fiction, which removes it from the category of straight channeling or metaphysical self-help books." —Jane Peranteau
Author: DK Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 059395789X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 162
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Combining clear labeled imagery with easy-to-understand text, this new edition of Simply Artificial Intelligence is the perfect introduction to the latest developments in AI, including ChatGPT and the Internet of Things. Covering a broad range of fields within AI - from computing and mathematics to politics and philosophy - entries demystify what artificial intelligence is and how it works, how it has dramatically changed how we live, and how it might evolve in the future. Everyone is talking about AI, but this book helps to explain each individual aspect of AI more clearly than ever before. This AI book: -Outlines the key building blocks and technological milestones in its history, profiles its most important practical applications - both current and predicted -Explores the ethical debates around AI and its increasing influence on culture and society. -Provides an accessible, reader-friendly guide with detailed imagery and annotated illustrations, expert insights, and jargon-free text -Studies and experiments such as The Turing Test and The Chinese Room experiment This book is part of the Simply Series, which includes books such as Simply Astronomy, Simply Psychology, Simply Maths, and more. Whether you are studying science or AI-related subjects at school or college or simply want a jargon-free overview of this increasingly important subject, this essential guide is packed with everything you need to understand the basics quickly and easily.
Author: Michael Harris Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1666940143 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 268
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If our near future sometimes feels like a dystopian sci-fi movie, that’s because it is. In Come With Me If You Want to Live: The Future as Foretold in Classic Sci-Fi Films, Michael Harris reveals the hidden-in-plain-sight meanings of the greatest science fiction films of the past fifty years, the ways in which they predicted the future that we are increasingly living in, but how we can still avoid the worst of what they warned us about. The 1970s saw the start of a new wave of science fiction that predicted environmental destruction, out-of-control technology, and escalating political crises. These were not the fantastical imaginings of filmmakers, they were based on rising environmental consciousness and solid scientific research. The explanation of why we didn’t heed these warnings might be the most important story of our time – and now our future. Each chapter focuses on a classic sci-fi film: among them Blade Runner, Terminator 2, 12 Monkeys, Brazil, , Soylent Green, and the Back to the Future series; these films are used to consider our likely environmental, technological, and political future. But taking sci-fi seriously again could help us to regain our power to create different tomorrows guided by practical utopianism, and to imagine new science fictions for a better world. If you’re wondering what the future holds, maybe you’ve already seen it.
Author: Steven A. Schnur Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9781583332504 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 464
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A fiber-based diet that incorporates carbohydrate, fat, and protein values from all food groups challenges the theories of fad diets, outlines an eight-week plan with exercise and dining out tips, and features more than two hundred recipes.
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