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Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary FUTURE SCIENCE
This collection of six articles--written by an experienced futurist who has interviewed over 400 people for their opinion about the future--describes several of the far future scientific and technological innovations which will transform our civilization from what it is now into an exponentially larger, faster, stronger and more dynamic civilization than can be contained on this planet, or in this solar system, or within this universe. These technologies will allow us to expand through those boundaries and find new unimagined boundaries beyond them to break through. (Six 9,000 Words) -- Article Titles -- We Will Transmute the Elements We Will Develop Many Completely New Physics My Father's Watch Hidden-Life May be More Common on Planets than And Earth May be No Exception The Universal Diagram Engineering Altering This Universe and Making New Ones
32 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 30, 2012
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Stephen Euin Cobb
24 books14 followersStephen Euin Cobb is an author, novelist, magazine writer, futurist, award-winning podcaster, and host of The Interstellar Research Group's video series “From Here to the Stars,” for which he won the Iridani Award in 2021.
For over ten years, he produced a weekly podcast, "The Future And You," which explored, through interviews, panel discussions, and commentary, all the ways the future will be different from today. For that, he won the Parsec Award in 2006.
His science fiction novels include two about Leather — Leather & the 40 Corpsicles in the Cafe Freezer and Leather: A Runaway Girl Across Three Worlds. And three others without Leather, but in her universe’s historical timeline — Plague at Redhook, Bones Burnt Black, and One Small Theft for Man: One Giant Siege for Mankind.
A contributing editor for Space and Time Magazine; he has also been a regular contributor to Robot, H+, Grim Couture and Port Iris magazines; and he spent three years as a columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen’s Universe Magazine.
An artist, essayist, game designer, and transhumanist, he is also on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation.
He has interviewed over 500 people and written over 100 magazine articles.
His nonfiction books include: Naked Space Theory: A Radical New Theory of Everything which Flips Physics on Its Head, as well as A Brief History of Predicting the Future, and Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future Science.
Recently, he created a series of Sudoku and Cryptogram puzzle books under the short version of his name: Steve Cobb.
For over ten years, he produced a weekly podcast, "The Future And You," which explored, through interviews, panel discussions, and commentary, all the ways the future will be different from today. For that, he won the Parsec Award in 2006.
His science fiction novels include two about Leather — Leather & the 40 Corpsicles in the Cafe Freezer and Leather: A Runaway Girl Across Three Worlds. And three others without Leather, but in her universe’s historical timeline — Plague at Redhook, Bones Burnt Black, and One Small Theft for Man: One Giant Siege for Mankind.
A contributing editor for Space and Time Magazine; he has also been a regular contributor to Robot, H+, Grim Couture and Port Iris magazines; and he spent three years as a columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen’s Universe Magazine.
An artist, essayist, game designer, and transhumanist, he is also on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation.
He has interviewed over 500 people and written over 100 magazine articles.
His nonfiction books include: Naked Space Theory: A Radical New Theory of Everything which Flips Physics on Its Head, as well as A Brief History of Predicting the Future, and Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future Science.
Recently, he created a series of Sudoku and Cryptogram puzzle books under the short version of his name: Steve Cobb.
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July 18, 2016
Loved it, especially the first half of the book. Really interesting ideas. It might be a bit outlandish for the average crowd, but as far as I can tell the ideas presented are physically sound.
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June 5, 2016Picked up while free on kindle in relation to ConCarolinas 2016.
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