Christopher Barnatt

The 25 things: peak oil, climate change, peak water, food shortages, resource depletion, 3D printing, nanotechnology, genetic modification, synthetic biology, vertical farming, electric vehicles, wind/wave/kinetic power, solar energy, nuclear fusion, space travel, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, quantum computing, robots, genetic medicine, bioprinting, cybernetic enhancement, life extension, and transhumanism. For the great majority of these, Barnatt does a good job of summarizing and presenting scenarios (~30-year ones, mostly), and he ends with an epilog that I think is all-important and exactly right: "Everybody now needs to understand that human civilization is either rushing headlong into the Singularity or accelerating toward collective decline." (p 377)… (meer)