A new history of the future in 100 objects / Adrian Hon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hon, Adrian, author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speculative fiction.

Genre:

Speculative fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Other Title:

New history of the future in one hundred objects

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Speculative fiction that presents a possible future -- as rich, complex, and compromised as our present -- in 100 vignettes, each focusing on individual technologies or social innovations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Ankle Surveillance Monitors

2. Speeky

3. The Guide

4. The Braid Collective

5. Silent Messaging

6. Smart Drugs

7. The Twelve Technological Virtues

8. Locked Simulation Interrogation

9. Disaster Kits

10. UCS Deliverbot

11. The Conversation Brokers

12. 46 Central Green

13. Mimic Scripts

14. The Algal Boom

15. Nautilus-1

16. Glyphish

17. The Value of Work

18. Two Towers

19. The Sudan-Shanghai Connection

20. Embodiment

21. Insurgency in a Box

22. Tropical Race Six

23. Désir

24. Saudi Spring

25. The Halls

26. Amplified Teams

27. Middle Eye

28. Thylacinus Cynocephalus

29. The Curve of Babel

30. The World of Glass

31. Structured Light

32. Tianxia

33. Negotiation Agents

34. Reading Rooms

35. Pan-Pan-Climate SAGA Five-Niner Heavy

36. Active Clothing

37. The Contrapuntal Hack

38. The Kill Switch

39. Micromort Detector

40. Chinese Tourism

41. Owen's Original Cloned Burger

42. The USTC Crash

43. Rituals for the Secular

44. Muon Detector

45. The Saint of Safekeepers

46. The Imitation Game

47. Miriam Xu's Lace

48. The Loop

49. The Seamstress's New Tools

50. Choosing a Driving Plan

51. Nobel Prize for Medicine

52. Funerary Monuments

53. Basic Maximum Income

54. Alto Firenze

55. A Cure for Hate

56. Shanghai Six

57. New Library of Malmö

58. The Dim Sum Lunches

59. Secret Life of the High Street

60. New Worlds

61. Prince George

62. Multiple Autonomous Element Supervisor

63. Javelin

64. Euphoric Gastronomy

65. The Hunt for the Thylacine

66. Giving Nothing a Name

67. Rechartered Cities

68. The Old Drones

69. Equal Rights

70. Fourth Great Awakening.

71. The Collingwood Meteor

72. The Downvoted

73. Marriage Contracts

74. The Lido

75. Death of a Mouse

76. Systemic Memome Project

77. The Fires of Mahoutokoro

78. The Observavi Database

79. The New Democracies

80. 50 Percent Unemployment

81. The Dream

82. The Cascade

83. OAID Deployment

84. The Brain Bubble

85. How to Watch TV

86. Amanda and Martin

87. The Half-Empty World

88. Enhance

89. Narada's Box

90. A Letter from Mars

91. Moral Agents

92. The Melt Event

93. How to get Posthuman Friends

94. Rewilding Saï Island

95. Cepheid Variable

96. Neuroethicist Identity Exam

97. Cooling Venus

98. Biomes

99. Our Unimproved Simulation

100. Trip of a Lifetime

Author's Note.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-36037-3

0-262-36038-1

OCLC:

1162349178