Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 324 pages
- Published by: Wiley-IEEE Press December 31, 1999
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0780353625
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0780353626
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Book Dimensions:
10.7 x 8.7 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 2.7 pounds
From Library Journal
"How will the next century change us?" is commonly asked as the 20th century comes to a close. Engineering Tomorrow not only explores the answers to this question but also asks: "How will we change the next century?" Bell, former editor of Scientific American and Omni, and Dooling, principal writer, Science@NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, mix a history of recent technological advances with an analysis of where engineering seems to be headed. Sidebars containing insights from 50 of today's leading technology experts (including Nobel laureates, inventors, and engineering fellows) are interspersed in the narrative. Many of these experts raise ethical and societal concerns dealing with how these advances will be used. Myriad technologies are reviewed including electric vehicles, artificial organs, space exploration, and the Internet. An entire chapter is dedicated to our responsibility to the environment. Recommended for both public and academic libraries.AWilliam Baer, Harold B. Lee Lib., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Review
A truly inspiring book that should be in college libraries and career counseling offices. --
Choice Magazine, June 2000Brave New World? the 20th century witnessed more technological advances than the 11th through the 19th combined, and the 21st will see even more. That's the message to be gleaned from ENGINEERING TOMORROW (IEEE Press, $49.95), a kaleidoscopic illustrated survey of some of the changes that may lie ahead. Janie Fouke, editor, and the writers Trudy E. Bell and Dave Dooling have called upon some 50 experts to examine such matters as Mars missions, climate changes, safer nuclear power, a more efficient INternet, better television (including improved program content) and even "boosting the collective IQ." It all sounds very promising, but there's still room for an occasional qualm, as whe the question is asked: "Who requirements art museums when you can have the virtual statue in your office?" Answer: me. -- Herbert Kupferberg --
Parade Magazine, January 16, 2000
Reader ReviewsThis book was made like a textbook- which actually made it easier to use. And the cover was hardcover- without paper over it (its really nice). Not as much information as I expected. I think the better chapters are: communications, medicine and biology, transportaton, exploration, and war and peace. These chapters are either more interesting and/or have more things in it that have a greater impact on our indiviual lives in the future. Also, there are alot of sections within each chapter that are written by people other than the authors of the book (Janie Fouke, editor, Trudy E. Bell and Dave Dooling, writers) about the future. There are 50 technology experts. Some of them and the titles of what they've written are: Donald R. Scifres: How will information technolgy transform global culture?, Stephen B. Weinstein: How will the Internet affect social relationships?, George S. Moschytz: How can we ensure that technology is humane and not inane? and Sylvia A. Earle: What does it take for people to realize that technology -induced climate change is jeopardizing our very lives? Some are in the chapters they should be in and some really don't have to do with that chapter at all.
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