50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know

Just been re-working the contents on one of my new books. Here’s the final (?) contents. Note that synthetic biology and climate change are featured despite not being headings. No cover yet but I’ll blog one when we have it and it’s public.

Contents
1. Politics & Power
Ubiquitous Surveillance
Digital Democracy
Cyber & Drone Warfare
Water Wars
Rise of the East

2. Energy & Environment
Resource Depletion
Beyond Fossil Fuels
Precision Agriculture
Population Change
Geo-Engineering

3. Urban Landscape
Mega-Cities
Local energy networks
Smart Cities
Next Generation Transport
Extra-Legal & Feral Slums

4. Technological Change
An Internet of Things
Quantum & DNA Computing
Nanotechnology
Gamification
Artificial Intelligence

5. Health & Wellbeing
Personalised Genome Sequencing
Regenerative Medicine
Remote Monitoring
User-Generated Medicine
Medical Data Mining

6. Social & Economic Dimensions
Living Alone
Dematerialisation
Income Polarisation
What (& Where) is Work?
The Pursuit of Happiness

7. Towards a Post-Human Society
Humans 2.0
Brain-Machine Interfaces
Avatar Assistants
Uncanny Valley
Transhumanism

8. Space: The Final Frontier
Alt.Space & Space Tourism
Solar Energy from Space
Moon Mining
Space Elevators
Extra Terrestrial Intelligence

9. Doomsday Scenarios
Mobile & Wireless Radiation
]Biohazards & Plagues
Nuclear Terrorism
Super-Volcanoes & Mega-Quakes
The Sixth Mass Extinction

10. Unanswered Questions
The Singularity
Me or We?
Mind Modification
Is God back?
Future Shock
Glossary of the future

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