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Anathem
Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
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The sci-fi optimist
Ahead of next year's novel Seveneves, he talks about his influences, the stagnation in material technologies, and Hieroglyph, the forthcoming science-fiction anthology that he kick-started to stimulate the next generation of engineers.
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The diamond age
The future is small. The future is nano ... And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell - an orphan girl alone and adrift in a world of Confucian Law, Neo-Victorian values and warring nano-technology? Well, not quite alone. Because Nell has a friend, of sorts. A guide, a teacher, an armed and unarmed combat instructor, a book and a computer.
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هيروغلاف : قصص ورؤى من أجل مستقبل أفضل
إن هذه المجموعة القصصية، التي ولدت من رحم إحدى مبادرات مركز العلم والخيال بجامعة أريزونا الحكومية، تضم مجموعة مدهشة من الكتاب المشاهير والعلماء البارزين ومستشرفي المستقبل المبدعين الذين أسهموا بكتاباتهم التي تتسم ب (التفاؤل التكنولوجي) بحيث يدفعوننا إلى التخيل بحرية والتفكير على نطاق واسع وإنجاز المشروعات العظيمة. داخل هذه المجموعة القصصية ستجد مزيجا ثريا من قصص الخيال العلمي والمقالات غير القصصية والرسومات التوضيحية وهذا الكتاب الآسر المحفز للفكر والخيال يمثل بيانا رسميا وخططا تمهيديا يدعو الناس في كل مكان إلى التوقف عن الشعور بالتشاؤم والحزن حيال مستقبلنا والاحتفاء بكل ما يمكننا تحقيقه.
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Innovation Starvation
Stephenson questions why in this century, despite big challenges, people have created no truly Big Ideas. Today's belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of people's age. In this environment, the best an audacious manager can do is to develop small improvements to existing systems -- climbing the bill, as it were, toward a local maximum, trimming fat, eking out the occasional tiny innovation -- like city planners painting bicycle lanes on the streets as a gesture toward solving energy problems. Any strategy that involves crossing a valley -- accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance -- will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done. Adapted from the source document.
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Unknown Unknowns
Andelman and Fredrick interview Neal Stephenson, one of the world's premier authors of science fiction. Among other things, Stephenson talks about the greatest single unknown people may be heading toward, something new coming along that will change civilization, and some unknown that could effectively become a universal panacea. Adapted from the source document.
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NASA: what now?
This month marks 50 years since Yuri Gagarin first ventured into space in the Vostok 1 mission, and 30 years since NASA's first shuttle flight. As the shuttle
Endeavour
prepares for its final flight, seven experts outline what NASA's priorities need to be.
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