[PDF] Visions Of Tomorrow eBook

Author : Tom Easton
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1602399980

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Gathers science fiction stories that accurately predicted future developments, including "The Land Iron Clads" by H.G. Wells, which foresaw tank warfare in 1903, and a tale that so closely depicted the atomic bomb in 1944 it worried the FBI.

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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
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This volume addresses the future of engineering within the business and social context in term of its likely impact on transport, energy and power, manufacturing, health and medicine, information technology, finance and education in the 21st century. Topics also covered include micro and nano engineering, power, sensors and controls, materials, innovation and the human interface with technology.

Author : Mark A. Abramson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1538121719

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In recognition of its 20th anniversary, The IBM Center for the Business of Government offers a retrospective of the most significant changes in government management during that period and looks forward over the next 20 years to offer alternative scenarios as to what government management might look like by the year 2040. Part I will discuss significant management improvements in the federal government over the past 20 years, based in part on a crowdsourced survey of knowledgeable government officials and public administration experts in the field. It will draw on themes and topics examined in the 350 IBM Center reports published over the past two decades. Part II will outline alternative scenarios of how government might change over the coming 20 years. The scenarios will be developed based on a series of envisioning sessions which are bringing together practitioners and academics to examine the future. The scenarios will be supplemented with short essays on various topics. Part II will also include essays by winners of the Center’s Challenge Grant competition. Challenge Grant winners will be awarded grants to identify futuristic visions of government in 2040. Contributions by Mark A. Abramson, David A. Bray, Daniel J. Chenok, Lee Feldman, Lora Frecks, Hollie Russon Gilman, Lori Gordon, John M. Kamensky, Michael J. Keegan, W. Henry Lambright, Tad McGalliard, Shelley H. Metzenbaum, Marc Ott, Sukumar Rao, and Darrell M. West.

Author : Cindy Trimm
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1629995509

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This book will help me craft my future by teaching me to make declarations from God’s Word that will set in motion His plan for my life and motivate me to believe good things from a good God so I can fulfill my destiny.

Author : Joseph J. Corn
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 1996-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801853999

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From Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas of the future.

Author : Katherine Sinclair
Publisher : Jove Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781557732767

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In the grand, bestselling tradition of Janet Dailey's Calder series, Katherine Sinclair paints a glorious picture of two women who share the wonder and promise of a 20th century that is just a heartbeat away. A sweeping and powerful saga from the bestselling author of A Different Eden.

Author : Michael Rawson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300255195

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An examination of how Western visions of endless future growth have contributed to the global environmental crisis "This book does something that is worth doing and that no other scholarly book I know of comes close to doing: tracing the history of imagined environmental futures in the Western world."--William Meyer, Colgate University For centuries, the West has produced stories about the future in which humans use advanced science and technology to transform the earth. Michael Rawson uses a wide range of works that include Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, the science fiction novels of Jules Verne, and even the speculations of think tanks like the RAND Corporation to reveal the environmental paradox at the heart of these narratives: the single-minded expectation of unlimited growth on a finite planet. Rawson shows how these stories, which have long pervaded Western dreams about the future, have helped to enable an unprecedentedly abundant and technology-driven lifestyle for some while bringing the threat of environmental disaster to all. Adapting to ecological realities, he argues, hinges on the ability to create new visions of tomorrow that decouple growth from the idea of progress.

Author : Tom Easton
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1628730080

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A fascinating collection of fiction-turned-reality tales. Long before movies like Minority Report and The Matrix, the world’s writers have been recording the future as it might exist—and as it turns out, they were right. This bizarre anthology collects the most stunning predictions and imagined inventions here for the first time. Visions of Tomorrow includes “The Land Iron Clads” by H. G. Wells, who described a military tank in 1903—long before it was ever a possibility; “The Yesterday House” by Fritz Leiber, who writes about cloned humans; “Reason” by Isaac Asimov, who predicted solar power could be harnessed by satellites; and many more. In this stunning anthology of never-before-collected stories, our world’s greatest science fiction writers demonstrate that the truth can be just as strange as fiction.