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ROBOTS
Introduction
s pa ce-a g e co puters
Providing for a powerhungry planet
in orbit
Battleground 2000
Speaking to the stars
Mind over matter- the
final frontier?
FUTURE CITIES
STAR TRAVEL
Introduction
From floating
log to
Space Shuttle
Personal transport
Starprobe 'Daedalus'
By asteroid to new worlds
Introduction
Star travellers
PART
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ROBOTS
SCIEnCE
Ei
fTIEDICiriE
IHTRDDUCTIDn
In [his first section of the boot, you
can see some of the ideas which
scientists are suggesting as way:. In
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as the
energy
computer systems as
their'brains' will
machine
in
sizes,
man. The
come in all shapes and
the shape of a
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designed
for.
today, for
n maths teacher-
rectangular and
on.
is
it
is
like
buttons
R.U.R.-Rossum's Universal
human form
turn
on
their
Since then,
small,
called an electronic
many
stories have
been
calculator.
in
part.
It
uses the
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PEOPLE OR
One of the most fantastic
achievements of modem medicine
has been the transpl anting of
organs (such as kidneys) from one
person to another, liven more
startling has been the invention of
completely artificial replacements,
or implants.
The silhouetted figure below
shows the range of transplants and
implants which could be put into a
body, though it is very unlikely that
mAcmnES?
ivi'iisd need them all.
ul lie lines shown are a ready
Some, such as the
nuelcar-powered heart have yet to
one perMHi
AW
available.
be developed.
It might be possible
near-immortality
to achieve
if organs
were
side-effect
in
replacement organs.
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FUTURE CITIES
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PART TWO
FUTURE CITIES
HorriES
inTRDDUCTIDn
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wide
in ihe future.
factories. It has
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to travel
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PART THREE
STAR TRAVEL
inTRDDucTinn
Inthislast section of the book,you
star travel
and
diwlupcJ
which may be
in the future.
In the last
hundred years,
Solar System
is
the rest of
explored, the
century.
Interplanetary exploration
is
stars.
Although star
travel
is
not
some of
the ways in which it might be
aLcompli^hLd - for new worlds and
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into space
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