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Understanding the science for tomorrow [digital videodisc] : myth and reality / The Teaching Company ; Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman.

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Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2011]

Science -- Forecasting.

Technological forecasting.

Technological innovations -- Forecasting.

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.

4 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 211 pages ; 19 cm.).

Disc 1: Changing the game -- Magnetism: the science of attractions -- Transportation: the science of how we move -- Computers: trillions of bits per second -- Artificial intelligence: thinking machines -- Robotics: living with machines -- Disc 2: Microscopes: the power of seeing it all -- Nanotechnology: the new science of small -- Nanotechnology: changing everything -- Synthetic life: making life from scratch -- The brain: your body's supercomputer -- Disc 3: Cancer and aging: can they be defeated? -- Powerful viruses: future friend or foe? -- Food or famine: science holds the key -- Water: the currency of the next century -- Solar cells: electricity from the sun -- Disc 4: Batteries: storing energy chemically -- The hydrogen economy: fact or fiction? -- Nuclear energy: harnessing star power -- Prediction: from storms to stocks -- Communication: transcending time and space -- Science in the future.

This transcript book is meant to accompany Great Courses No. 1391 and contains the text of each lecture, biographical notes, and bibliography. The course examines the ways advances in science and technology may change the fundamentals of the way we live in the future-- what we eat and drink, how we travel, how we connect with each other, and even how long we live.

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