Books
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Heartsease | Peter Dickinson | At a future time in England when anyone knowledgeable about machines is severely punished as a witch, four children dare to aid in the escape of a "witch" left for dead. | OL15855506W |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari | In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power. Censorship works not by blocking the flow of information, but rather by flooding people with disinformation and distractions. 21 Lesson… | OL17917961W |
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Future sports | Jack Dann,Gardner R. Dozois | An entertaining anthology of short fiction by some of speculative fiction's biggest names--including Arthur C. Clarke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Swanwick, Alastair Reynolds, Howard Waldrop, Jonat… | OL19170838W |
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Under an ionized sky | Elana Freeland | It is difficult to believe that our planet has been weaponized before our very eyes, but that is exactly what has happened. First, we were seduced by the convenience of a wireless world; then, atmosp… | OL19733292W |
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The Great Questions of Tomorrow | David Rothkopf | 110 pages ; 19 cm | OL20855199W |
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Futuretrack 5 | Robert Westall | In the highly organized society of twenty-first-century Britain the system is not to be questioned, but Kitson, a young computer wizard, and his partner Keri are determined to find answers to some im… | OL2182858W |
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What Are You Optimistic About? | Robert Shapiro,Lisa Randall,John McCarthy,Andrew Brown,Douglas Rushkoff,Richard Dawkins,Freeman J. Dyson,Jared Diamond,Brian Greene,Martin Rees,Paul J. Steinhardt,Martin Elias Pete Seligman,John Horgan,J. Craig Venter,Alexander Vilenkin,Charles Seife,Geoffrey Miller,Marcelo Gleiser,Michael Shermer,Steven Pinker,Lawrence Maxwell Krauss,Anton Zeilinger,Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,Daniel C. Dennett,John Brockman,Karl Sabbagh,Clay Shirky,Gino Segrè,Lee Smolin,Carlo Rovelli,Leonard Susskind,Sam Harris,Max Tegmark,Chris Anderson,Jerry Adler,Frank Wilczek | The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge … | OL2790329W |