forecasting

"Explains why digital urban technology is the key to meeting the overwhelming pressures of population growth, resource scarcity, and big data and ensuring a sustainable global future"--Provided by publisher.

Explores the possible future of car design.

"A book detailing depictions of interstellar manned space travel in science fiction as well as the real science behind it."--Provided by publisher.

An assessment of the revolutionary potential of artificial intelligence and robotics traces how technology arrived at this point and how artificial life, machine consciousness, extreme prosperity, and technological warfare will be hotly debated issues of the near future.

An introduction to denialism, explaining the causes and characteristics, and describing how social fears and superstitions hinder scientific progress, which can impact the environment and individual lives.

Discusses how the school libraries are changing with new technologies.

Contains twelve articles about books, discussing digital printing, the printed book market, e-books, and how publishers and libraries can meet the challenges presented by e-books.