TY - GEN AU - Berleant,Daniel TI - The human race to the future: what could happen - and what to do SN - 9781503247178 AV - Q 175 B514h 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - New York : PB - Lifeboat Foundation N1 - Foreword: the human race to the future / comments by Gil Alterovitz and Brandon H. Lee -- Introduction: why read this book? -- What it means that an hour's work yields a week's food -- Live anywhere, work anywhere else -- Keyboards yesterday, mind reading tomorrow -- Wiki-wiki-Wikipedia -- Smart pills n' such: cognitive enhancement the easy way -- From highly centralized to highly decentralized society -- When genomes get cheap -- Cheaper teaching, faster learning -- Soylent spring -- The turbulence of short-term thinking -- Battle for the mind -- Will artificial intelligence threaten civilization? -- Deconstructing nuclear nonproliferation -- Space empire: from Mercury to Neptune... and beyond -- Tastes like the singularity, but less filling -- Chasing the future: spoilsports of the prediction game -- Warm, poison planet -- Day of contact -- Saving daylight (in memory of Daylight Savings Time, R.I.P.) -- Science and destiny -- Teeming cities of Mars -- Big ice -- Topsy-turvy: when the North and South Poles switch -- New plant paradigms -- Asteroid apocalypse -- Sic transit humanitas: the transcent of man -- Floating prairies of the sea -- Get ready for the Greenish Revolution -- Accelerating evolution -- If the universe as we know it ends, when will it happen? N2 - Who doesn't have at least some curiosity about the future... what things will be like some day, how long it might take, and what to do about it? This book gives answers spanning from the current century to nearly eternity. Imaginative yet scientifically rigorous, most chapters share a concluding section discussing actions to take, whether by individuals, nation or other groups, or the entire world? This book is for you if you are interested in the future, intrigued by science and technology, or both. Read and enjoy! -- From publisher's description ER -