Jon Bentley of the popular British show Top Gear examines recent innovations in automotive technology and considers what they portend for the industry in Autopia: The Future of Cars. The book’s discussions of topics like driverless... Read More

"The Future of Buildings, Transportation and Power" is a timely consideration of the energy sector that predicts future trends that will help in combating climate change. Roger Duncan and Michael E. Webber’s analysis of the energy... Read More

Canadian architect Teresa Coady is renowned worldwide for her firm’s high-performance, energy-efficient buildings. In "Rebuilding Earth", she discusses myriad ways to reform the Industrial Age construction industry, which now crashes... Read More

Tan Le’s "The NeuroGeneration" cracks open the world of brain enhancement to show that the future may be closer than we think. Le, on the cutting edge of research and technology into one of the biggest mysteries—the human... Read More

Video gamers as environmental activists? Alenda Y. Chang doesn’t think it’s as counterintuitive as it sounds. In her trenchant and wide-ranging "Playing Nature", she analyzes the potential of gaming’s huge audience to become nimble... Read More

"The Case for Pandora" explores the capabilities of modern extraterrestrial travel technology with enthralling vision. James Essig and Steve McCarter’s The Case For Pandora is a technical manual with instructions for building a... Read More

"Augmented Mind" is a realistic and exciting look at the future of digital technology. Alex Bates’s "Augmented Mind" is an encouraging and realistic look at the potential future of AI. The premise of this short, sound, and fascinating... Read More

If you’re worried about computers becoming masters of the world, don’t hold your breath: the greatest minds in artificial intelligence can’t imagine even the first baby steps to building a machine as complex as the human brain,... Read More