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A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no social media—beckons, and settling the …
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past. . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on h…
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, an illustrated investigation into future t…
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE . . . in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into …
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering th…
Microserfs
Narrated in the form of a Powerbook entry by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer for Microsoft, this state-of-the-art novel about life in the '90…