Life In The Coming Millennium
What does the long-term future hold for us? With predictions based solidly on science and technology, this book 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 colonisation of the Moon and Mars, and the mining of asteroids
- The construction of starships capable of travelling at speeds of hundreds of millions of kilometres per hour.