Evolution of Sciences and Technoligies

VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: RELATED READING
Want to know more about the questions and possibilities raised by Michio Kaku's series Visions of the Future? Here are just some of the books and websites which cover the fascinating ground covered by the series. Please note that the following list is by no means exhaustive.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ESSENTIAL READING

GARREAU, Joel - Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies - And What It Means to Be Human (Doubleday Books, 2005)

GREENFIELD, Susan - Tomorrow's People: How 21st Century Technology Is Changing the Way We Think and Feel (Allen Lane, 2003)

KAKU, Michio - Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, revised edition, 1999)

EPISODE 1 - THE INTELLIGENCE REVOLUTION

BROOKS, Rodney A - Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us (Vintage Books USA, 2003 (First published as Robot: The Future of Flesh and Machines, Allen Lane 2002)

CLARK, Andy - Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2003)

MINSKY, Marvin - The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind (Simon & Schuster, 2006)

MORAVEC, Hans - Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind (Oxford University Press, 1998)

PICARD, Rosalind W - Affective Computing (The MIT Press, 2000, 2nd, revised edition)

EPISODE 2 - THE BIOTECH REVOLUTION

APPLEYARD, Bryan - How to Live Forever or Die Trying: On the New Immortality (Simon & Schuster, 2007)

BAILEY, Ronald - Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution (Prometheus Books, 2005)

CURRAN, Brendan - A Terrible Beauty Is Born: Genes, Cloning and the Future of Mankind (Taylor & Francis, 2003)

NAAM, Ramez - More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement (Broadway Books, 2005)

OLSHANSKY, S Jay & CARNES, Bruce A - The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging (W W Norton & Co Ltd, 2002)

STOCK, Gregory - Redesigning Humans (Profile Books, 2002)

EPISODE 3 - THE QUANTUM REVOLUTION

DREXLER, Eric K - Engines of Creation (Fourth Estate, revised edition, 1996)

HALL, John Storrs - Nanofuture: What's Next for Nanotechnology (Prometheus Books, 2005)

JONES, Richard A L - Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and Life (Oxford University Press, 2002)

KRONE, Bob - Beyond Earth: The Future of Humans in Space (Apogee Books, 2006)

RATNER, Mark, and RATNER, Daniel - Nanotechnology: Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea (Prentice Hall, 2002)

GENERAL

BROCKMAN, John - The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty First Century (Phoenix, new edition, 2003)

BRODERICK, Damien - The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies (Tom Doherty Associates, 2001)

KURZWEIL, Ray - The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Penguin Books, 2006)

MARTIN, James - The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future (Eden Project Books, new edition, 2007)

MASON, Colin - A Short History of the Future: Surviving the 2030 Spike (Earthscan, 2nd revised edition, 2006)

MULHALL, Douglas - Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Prometheus Books, 2002)

REES, Martin - Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-First Century? (Arrow Books, revised edition, 2004)

USEFUL LINKS

mkaku.org
Official site for Dr Michio Kaku

www.edge.org
Stimulating contributions from scientists and other thinkers

www.iftf.org
Institute for the Future, California

KurzweilAI.net
Ray Kurzweil's website: futurism and the "singularity"

www.21school.ox.ac.uk
The James Martin 21st Century School, Oxford University

Neurobiotics
The Science Museum's in-depth guide

www.sciencehorizons.org.uk
More forecasts for the future

www.sciencewise.org.uk
Take part in the planning of all our futures

DNA at 50
In-depth site from 2003 marking
50 years since the discovery of DNA

http://www.ebookee.com.cn/Visions-How-Science-Will-Revolutionize-the-21st-Century_313925.html

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Impact of Technologies

Inconvenient Trues

Inconvenient Trues (HBO) - 92 min

The Ascent of Man (BBC)

suggested extra film watch list

Disk 1. Lower than angels (species); Harvest of the seasons (life / culture) --
Disk 2. Grain in the stone (architechure); The hidden structure (tools) ; Music of the spheres (Math) --
Disk 3. Starry messenger (Science) ; Majestic clockwork (Physics) ; Drive for power (Inductry) --
Disk 4. Ladder of creation (Evolution) ; World within world (Atom) ; Knowledge or certainty (Quantum) --
Disk 5. Generation upon generation (Gene) ; Long childhood (Mind)

Green : related to Quantum Revolution; Pink : Biotech Revolution ; Red : Computer and Brain Science

Film List

TED : Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html

The Island

http://webpac.lib.tku.edu.tw/lib/item?id=chamo:1053091

Restriction enzyme

http://juang.bst.ntu.edu.tw/BC2008/NA.htm#%E9%99%90%E5%88%B6%E8%84%A2

epigenetics

Epigenetics and the influence of our genes | Courtney Griffins | TEDxOU

https://youtu.be/JTBg6hqeuTg

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