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Discover Cleantech
Mode of access: Internet.
- Subjects: Computers & Technology; History & Science;
- © , Scan Magazine
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- The Family Experiment [electronic resource] : by Marrs, John.aut; Corbett, Clare.nrt; Samuel, Clifford.nrt; Beaton, Eilidh.nrt; Riley, Joshua.nrt; Avoth, Justin.nrt; Judd, Thomas.nrt; Okoye, Nneka.nrt; cloudLibrary;
From the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and brilliant speculative thriller about families: real and virtual. Some families are virtually perfect… The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families, let alone raise them. But for those desperate to experience parenthood, there is an alternative. For a monthly subscription fee, clients can create a virtual child from scratch who they can access via the metaverse and a VR headset. To launch this new initiative, the company behind Virtual Children has created a reality TV show called The Substitute. It will follow ten couples as they raise a Virtual Child from birth to the age of eighteen but in a condensed nine-month time period. The prize: the right to keep their virtual child, or risk it all for the chance of a real baby… Set in the same universe as John Marrs's bestselling novel The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and twisted thriller about the ultimate Tamagotchi—a virtual baby.
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Literary; Dystopian; Technological;
- © 2024., HarperCollins,
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- Makers : all kinds of people making amazing things in garages, basements, and backyards / by Parks, Bob.;
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- Subjects: Inventors; Inventions.; Technological innovations.;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- How to fix the future / by Keen, Andrew,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subjects: Information society.; Information technology; Information technology;
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- Adventures from the technology underground : catapults, pulsejets, rail guns, flamethrowers, tesla coils, air cannons and the garage warriors who love them / by Gurstelle, William;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]) and index.
- Subjects: Machine design;
- © c2006., Clarkson Potter/Publishers,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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XL Semanal
Mode of access: Internet.
- Subjects: Computers & Technology; Travel & Culture;
- © , Vocento
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Production Partner
Mode of access: Internet.
- Subjects: Entertainment & TV; Computers & Technology;
- © , Ebner Media Group
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inst:all magazine méxico
Mode of access: Internet.
- Subjects: Entertainment & TV; Computers & Technology;
- © , Musitech
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- The skeptics' guide to the future : what yesterday's science and science fiction tell us about the world of tomorrow / by Novella, Steven,author.; Novella, Bob,author.; Novella, Jay,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. Whether they be the outlandish leaps predicted in the 1920s, like multi-purpose utility belts with climate control capabilities and planes the size of luxury cruise ships, or the forecasts of the '60s, which didn't anticipate the sexual revolution or women's liberation, the path to the present is littered with failed predictions and incorrect estimations. The best we can do is try to absorb the lessons from futurism's checkered past, perhaps learning to do a little better. In THE SKEPTICS' GUIDE TO THE FUTURE, Steven Novella and his co-authors build upon the work of futurists of the past by examining what they got right, what they got wrong, and how they came to those conclusions. By exploring the pitfalls of each era, they give their own speculations about the distant future, transformed by unbelievable technology ranging from genetic manipulation to artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Applying their trademark skepticism, they carefully extrapolate upon each scientific development, leaving no stone unturned as they lay out a vision for the future"--
- Subjects: Science; Science.; Technological forecasting.;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Where the Axe Is Buried A Novel [electronic resource] : by Nayler, Ray.aut; CloudLibrary;
All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end. In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile, on the fringes of a Western Europe that has renounced human governance in favor of ostensibly more efficient, objective, and peaceful AI Prime Ministers, an experimental artificial mind is malfunctioning, threatening to set off a chain of events that may spell the end of the Western world. As the Federation and the West both start to crumble, Lilia, the brilliant scientist whose invention may be central to bringing down the seemingly immortal President, goes on the run, trying to break out from a near-impenetrable web of Federation surveillance. Her fate is bound up with a worldwide group of others fighting against the global status quo: Palmer, the man Lilia left behind in London, desperate to solve the mystery of her disappearance; Zoya, a veteran activist imprisoned in the taiga, whose book has inspired a revolutionary movement; Nikolai, the President’s personal physician, who has been forced into more and more harrowing decisions as he navigates the Federation’s palace politics; and Nurlan, the hapless parliamentary staffer whose attempt to save his Republic goes terribly awry. And then there is Krotov, head of the Federation’s security services, whose plots, agents, and assassins are everywhere. Following the success of his debut novel, The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler launches readers into a thrilling near-future world of geopolitical espionage. A cybernetic novel of political intrigue, Where the Axe is Buried combines the story of a near-impossible revolutionary operation with a blistering indictment of the many forms of authoritarianism that suffocate human freedom.General adult.
- Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Science Fiction; Technological;
- © 2025., Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
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