Book description
Find the future now with 50 predictions in The Rough Guide to the
Future.
Wondering what's really in store for the human race? Nanotechnology
and gene enhancements, solar power and carbon capture? Or oil shocks,
water wars, food shortages, and mass extinction? The Rough Guide to
the Future cuts a clear path through the jungle of scientific
research and political debate, steering you around the prophets of
doom and the utopian visionaries, to take you on a tour of the
likeliest possibilities for the rest of this century - and beyond. It
covers 50 predictions from the world's leading futurologists and
chronicles predictions from the past along with visions of the future.
You'll find out where we go from here with The Rough Guide to the Future.
Jon Turney is a science writer and former features editor of
The Times'
Higher Education supplement, with degrees in Biochemistry and History
of Science. He has taught at UCL and was head of the Department of
Science and Technology Studies at Imperial College
