Soonish

By Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith,

Book cover of Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

Book description

What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining book, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith give us a snapshot of the transformative technologies that are coming next - from robot swarms to nuclear fusion…

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1 author picked Soonish as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is a hoot! It’s about as far from an earnest lecture on future tech–including asteroid mining–as can be, yet it still taught me a ton while I laughed out loud. (I may be biased as there’s a nearly full-page cartoon of me on page 66.)

Beware: you may emerge from reading it with new views.

From Martin's list on space mining.

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