FUTURE IN MINUTES

200 futuristic concepts, technologies and their consequences are among the fundamental questions, concisely and lucidly explained. There is everything from cryptocurrencies and world governments to gene therapy and colonising planets as the author considers what the future holds, how we will live, work and entertain ourselves and what new technologies will emerge. Covers not just these shifts in society but also scarcity and solutions, politics, warfare and ethics, the quest for immortality, transhumans and posthumans, Artificial Intelligence, threats to humanity, space travel, super-advanced science and indeed the fate of the Earth and the Universe. Written by a mathematical physicist from Trinity College, Cambridge. 416pp, small square paperback, packed with hundreds of illus.