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Angell, Ian. The New Barbarian Manifesto: How to Survive the Information Age. London: Kogan Page, 2000.

Beason, Doug. The E-Bomb: How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2005.

Benyus, Janine M. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. New York: William Morrow, 1997.

Berkowitz, Bruce. The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century. New York: The Free Press, 2003.

Berube, David M. Nano-Hype: The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2006.

Brockman, John, ed. The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Vintage Books, 2002.

Broderick, Damien. The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies. New York: Tom Doherty Associations, 2001.

Dertouzos, Michael. The Unfinished Revolution: Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do for Us. New York: Harper Collins, 2001.

Dertouzos, Michael. What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives. New York: Harper Collins, 1997.

Dyson, Freeman J. The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Edwards, John. The Geeks of War: The Secretive Labs and Brilliant Minds Behind Tomorrow's Warfare Technologies. New York: American Management Association, 2005.

Forbes, Nancy. Imitation of Life: How Biology is Inspiring Computing. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2004.

Forbes, Peter. The Gecko’s Foot: Bio-Inspiration -- Engineering New Materials from Nature. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

Gelernter, David. Mirror Worlds... or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox... How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Gershenfeld, Neil. Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop -- From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Gilder, George. The Silicon Eye: How a Silicon Valley Company Aims to Make All Current Computers, Cameras, and Cell Phones Obsolete. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.

Hambling, David. Weapons Grade: How Modern Warfare Gave Birth to Our High-Tech World. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005.

Johnstone, Bob. Brilliant: Shuji Nakamura and the Revolution in Lighting Technology. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2007.

Kurzweil, Ray. The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. New York: Viking, 2005.

Levy, David. Robots Unlimited: Life in a Virtual Age. Wellesley, Massachusetts: A. K. Peters, 2006.

Maddox, John. What Remains To Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race. New York: The Free Press, 1998.

Martel, William C., ed. The Technological Arsenal: Emerging Defense Capabilities. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.

McKibben, Bill. Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. New York: Times Books, 2003.

Meyer, Christopher and Stan Davis. It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business. New York: Crown Business, 2003.

Mulhall, Douglas. Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World. New York: Prometheus Books, 2002.

Oliver, Richard W. The Coming Biotech Age: The Business of Bio-Materials. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Perkowitz, Sidney. Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2004.

Pernick, Ron; and Clint Wilder. The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

Pickover, Clifford A. Visions of the Future: Art, Technology and Computing in the Twenty-First Century. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Rifkin, Jeremy. The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002.

 

Regis, Ed. Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1990.

Regis, Ed. The Info Mesa: Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.

Romm, Joseph J. The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2005.

Schmidt, Stanley. The Coming Convergence: The Surprising Ways Diverse Technologies Interact to Shape Our World and Change the Future. New York: Prometheus Books, 2008.

Smith, Marquard and Joanne Morra, eds. The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006.

Standage, Tom, ed. The Future of Technology. London: Profile Books, 2005.

Sterling, Bruce. Shaping Things. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2005.

West, Thomas G. Thinking Like Einstein: Returning to Our Visual Roots With the Emerging Revolution in Computer Information Visualization. New York: Prometheus Books, 2004.

Zubrin, Robert. Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1999.

Zubrin, Robert with Richard Wagner. The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must. New York: The Free Press, 1996.

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