Exotic Technologies

In the world today, technology is essential for nearly every aspect of human life. Most technologies advance in orderly, predictable ways. Others, however, such as Artificial Intelligence, are accelerating at unprecedented rates. We are standing at the threshold of multiple breakthroughs, for better or for worse, as civilization enters a period of profound transformation.

Exotic Technologies explores this moment of change, such as in the inevitable conquest of space, plans to occupy Mars, travel by robot electric vehicles, synthesized foods, satellite-linked cyberspace, and medical technologies that may extend longevity and that may one day challenge the limits of mortality itself.

Exotic Technologies explores misjudged, nontraditional, and emergent concepts that challenge many engineering assumptions, such as in energy, transportation, food production, automation, and quantum computing.

The author's decades of experience working on new products, trouble-shooting old ones, and exploring "what if" ideas that influenced dozens of products is exemplified throughout the book in his connecting real-world engineering, technical history, and modern breakthroughs in a coherent and readable narrative.

Inside the book, you'll discover:

• Success of once-dismissed "impractical" technologies like synthetic foods, brain neurohacking and once- elusive and different Quantum Computing

• How space exploration really is the new frontier

• How medical breakthroughs enable motion for paralytics and are the path to eternity

• The line between speculative science and solid engineering

• The background and surprising early histories of the most important technologies

The book is written for inquiring readers who value substance over hype, including engineers, technologists, futurists, citizen scientists and technologists, and the SciTech curious. Concepts are explained logically and in accessible terms. Above all, this book is for those who want to understand where the future is headed and how emerging and exotic technologies may reshape and optimize human life.