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ROBOTS
Introduction

s pa ce-a g e co puters
Providing for a powerhungry planet

Energy from space

Factories

Sea City 2000

The tallest skyscraper ever
Moonbase
The Olympic Games, year 2020
Cities in the sky/1

From stone-age tools to

in orbit

Goldmines in the sky

Looking after our world
Farming on land and sea
Medical emergency
People or machines?
Artificial intelligence

Battleground 2000
Speaking to the stars
Mind over matter- the
final frontier?

The next 120 years

PART 2

FUTURE CITIES

Cities in the sky/2

Colonizing other worlds

Empire of the Sun

The next 120 years
PART 3

STAR TRAVEL
Introduction

From floating

log to

Space Shuttle
Personal transport

Cars and trucks

Tomorrow's trains
Under and over the waves
Jumbos, SSTs and airships
The Space Shuttle
Journey into space
Exploring the Solar System

Starprobe 'Daedalus'
By asteroid to new worlds

Introduction

Star travellers

From cave dwellings to

skyscrapers
Two trips to the 21st century
A house of the future
Computers in the home

Across the U n iverse

The next 170 years

The electronic revol utio

PART

OriE

ROBOTS

SCIEnCE

Ei

fTIEDICiriE

inTO THE EIst CEfTTURY

~~

IHTRDDUCTIDn
In [his first section of the boot, you
can see some of the ideas which
scientists are suggesting as way:. In
.
.

-W problems such
:!

as the

energy

and alohal pollution.

Robots, which form the central

theme, will help mankind run an

-_re:( singly c

om pies world. Few of

computer systems as

their'brains' will

jk like the popular image of a robot.

machine

in

sizes,

man. The
come in all shapes and

the shape of a

real robots will

according to the job they are

An arithmetic robot of

designed

for.

today, for

example, does not look

n maths teacher-

rectangular and
on.

is

it

is

like

The name was used

called

buttons

ina 1920 play

R.U.R.-Rossum's Universal

Robots, in which mass-produced

robots in

human form

turn

on

their

creators and ex terminate them.

Since then,

small,

its face' has

called an electronic

many

stories have

been

written about warlike robots. If you

count the guidance computers aboard

calculator.

nuclear missiles as simple robots,

The word 'robot' comes from the

Czech word' rohota' meaning 'labour'.

then those stories have,

in

part.

Power from the

ocean depths
On Ihe left engineers carry out a
station oTthe future.

It

uses the

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EflERGY FRDfTl SPACE

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PEOPLE OR
One of the most fantastic
achievements of modem medicine
has been the transpl anting of
organs (such as kidneys) from one
person to another, liven more
startling has been the invention of
completely artificial replacements,
or implants.
The silhouetted figure below
shows the range of transplants and
implants which could be put into a
body, though it is very unlikely that

mAcmnES?
ivi'iisd need them all.
ul lie lines shown are a ready
Some, such as the
nuelcar-powered heart have yet to

one perMHi

AW

available.

be developed.
It might be possible
near-immortality

to achieve

if organs

were

continually replaced as they wore

out.

There could be an unpleasant

though- a black-market

side-effect
in

replacement organs.

ARTIFICIAL inTELLIGEHCE

Man and machinepartners down the

future ages

bcncr fined to explore the Unive rse.

This pi dure shows a possible
exploration Team of the future. Humans
and mach ines work together as t hey study a
depths of space. In this cxplo rer team the
hunta its are'in charge', though the
.

iiwiiv than

tin;

hrinn-,

iif all its

human

ciew put logilhcr, and would probably

Designed and built foil

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FlflAL FROHTIER
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touch

wait inp

hearing, a sixili
be developed.

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Tbcvaill

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uri.imj.ilv

HSI'Il includes different

Libililic'..Mi.h.L:welopjlhy..lhi.'a!i!lilv

iii^irmmmitmc ihi>ui;h[s mind to

mind: and leleliiiusis ..the ability In
mmvubiects bv aii.ia ulvvill whin ill!
touching them).
Scientists have tried it) prove the
r
onhese and u! be 'strange
|Hiwr:' in many experiments, so far
witinnn iineluMve evidence for or
aatiiM. l-nutfc research should solve
the problem. Could machines use
reality

ESP too? Onlytime will tell.

H'-oliim-apii-,

Lillld.

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this

one

Like

M;i1;l a sli <]1

cards marked with a square.

may show

plaii.'.

appeariuflare brightly.

Try your own telepathy experiment

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[PART TWO

FUTURE CITIES
HOITIES

& LIVinG IflTD THE EIst CEI1TURY

PART TWO

FUTURE CITIES
HorriES

& uvinG irrra the eist cehtury

inTRDDUCTIDn
Inth

mi, you can find ot

about some of the amazing pi:
to live in which might be developed

the industrial cities of North

America and Europe are being

ranks of houses and

repeated in the developing

wide

in ihe future.

countries of the Third World:

City life is not a new thing- the

Greeks and Romans were building
small cities thousands of years agci
What isa recent development is for

slums in Calcutta and Brazilia

compare with slums anywhere else.

the vast majority of a country's

people to live together in cities. The

problems this has brought - crime,
pollution, congestion and housing

S omc peopl e predict that these

problems cannot be solved and that

the large city is doomed. Others say
that people like living in large

factories. It has

iiv.iiliesiii'p.u-k;:

.mJ farmland

The links which make a supercity are its transport systems.

ci Miiiiiu:crs

to travel

hi ml reds of kilometres a day to

and from work with little more
effort than it took someone to
travel a dozen kilometres in past
i

groups. The evidence seems to

indicate that 'super-cities',

consisting of many cities linked

the world. Many of the

mistakes which have been made in
cities across

Indus! in;] city, composed of sol id

Tlu:\ aiiiHt

In the last part of this:

can see how cities could be built n

together, are developing. The

other parts of the Solar System in

super-city is not like the old

the 21st century and beyond.

FROm CAVE DLUELLinGS

TO SKYSCRAPERS

36

5EA CITY EDDD

This pyramid-shaped structure is a
-dl-ii
inol tliiiiiiiacily, an idea

and ecology to solve some of the

prulilciiinif city life.

thai has been suggested as an

.il [l-j native hi huil Jim! mure suburbs

Anarchology is basically one huge

building, with shops, schools,
playgrounds and homes all within
walking distance of each other. There
would be no need for cars, so there
would be no congestion. All city
wastes would be recycled, the
archology being designed to keep in
eculi iincal balance with its

or rawer blocks.

American archiieci Buckminsrer

:

i.

suu^ied me concept of

iliKiiinacilie.in the l''fiO..T!ie

n here vim's

Mime of his

doi^i

ideas,

logeiher with [hose of another

;l

re hi tel. i'.nikiSukTi.io

archiiloiiy-

;i

blend isisf

i>f

produce an

PfSfi-itiaped
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antenna beams
microwave energif,
generated by -me
Solar celts,

*3

rece/Vero* -Hie
nearby coast. Then?

ir witt

teumvermi

intv etectricfhf

urdiiitau i'e

Pome-covered maeMi/iery io
convert raw materials into
ft'ntehed

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THE BKY/H

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OTHER WORLDS

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PART THREE

STAR TRAVEL
inTRDDucTinn
Inthislast section of the book,you

making day-to-day travel

can find out aboui

pleasure instead of a torture.

Oil, the main fuel for all present-

star travel

and

same of the other amazing ways of

getting about

diwlupcJ

which may be

in the future.

In the last

hundred years,

photographs of Mercury, Venus,

Mars and Jupiter. When

(fie

Solar System

is

the rest of

explored, the

day transport systems, will run out

before too loog. You can read about
some of the replacements which,

logical step will be to build

spaceships capable ofgoing to the

scientists suggest, will fuel cars,

possible yet, you can see

transportation has developed from

horse and steam power to the jet
age and space exploration. Yet

century.

travel in and between cities here on

lianh is often difficult and timeconsuming. You can see some ideas
- both new and noi-so-new - for

now almost an everyday affair. Men

have landed on the Moon and robot
explorers have landed on or taken

trucks and planes in the 2 1st

Interplanetary exploration

is

stars.

Although star

travel

is

not

some of
the ways in which it might be
aLcompli^hLd - for new worlds and

new horizons, of which there are

noneleft on Earth, will be the
objectives for the explorers of

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SPACE SHUTTLE

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THANSPO ttf ON LAND AND WATER

CARS

AF1D

TRUCKS

I-Vi [.! i Liuingtogetmore and more

expensive as supplies dwindle in the
future, so energy-saving design will be
the theme for cars and trucks for the
:

By the

1990s, eiectric cars should be

make them a

iLcvck'yvil -iLilULiaulv u>

good

alternative to petrol-engined

In the 21st century, luuny scientists

l-.vJtni!^ii T.H;> will

tliinl-: iinst lii|in-.i

bcusiil

vdin

;is

the hiLNC fuel for

most

m. Iiijii^.iiu
Altln.ut.Kii
LH^ needs careful storing and
iwHiLLv- bi^ aid nitki it is dean and
lr>

non-polluting.

Small, sleek and silent truck of tomorrow

Ws Chevrolet -truck of -today

already has a futuristic
feature an sir deflector
over

-the

cab

-to

smooHi

airflow and save fuel

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THE SPACE SHUTTLE

Thi' Slucc

^-tKiblc

Slunk U the worlds first

sp.k\ja-;ilt.

oi'i'wnkMllv

inorbh

l;ku

like a

designed to take

;i

spaceship,

t.

manoeuvre

men

lly honiu.-

covered

r it
w'tth

l^ooo

heat-

resistant-

likeaglidcr.

to
re-used up lo 100 times, unlike
iirJiin-n rockets

-tile 1}

protect the

craft- front -foe

fteiy hear of

wh"

destruction with each sp

re-entry

cost offlight into space will bt _

everyday terms though,

prices arc hiah- customers will pav
from S10,000 to more than $21 million
for cargo space.
reduced.

l:i

Its American dcs-jancis believe Lli.it

the Spjcc Shuttle and craft like it will
Ivcomc as vital tonur t'urure as ships
and aircraft are today, and that

experiments undertaken in orbiting

Shuttles '.vl!l jcid to adva !,cs that will
affect everv man. woman and child.
r

Spaceplane to orbit

Petts wigs enable

Shuttle ortirer

ifie

fwmjef

to

land buck cm 3

normal runway

* The Shuttle

can take

hear if loads

into space

3 maximum of
29,

tst

Ay.

its

designers are a/r

thinking about t>i$$er

versions.

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STAR TRAVELLERS

INTE USTE LLAR TRAVEL

ACROSS THE UPIVERSE

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