The Next 500 Years: Life in the Coming Millennium [antikvár]

The Next 500 Years - What does the long-term future hold for us? Basing his predictions solidly on science and technology, Adrian Berry looks ahead to the coming millennium and foresees: The storage of human personalities on computer disks for retrieval after death; the arrival of a new generation of super-intelligent robots that may replace human beings; the intensive farming of the seas; the coming of another ice age; the colonization of the Moon and Mars, and the mining of asteroids; the construction of starships capable of traveling at speed of hundreds of millions of kilometers per hour.