The year is 2052. Humanity's first interstellar intercept mission is about to change everything.When a three-kilometer alien object designated IXO is detected on a trajectory toward Earth, astrophysicist Dr. Lukas Novak is chosen to lead a four-person crew aboard the Sentinel to intercept it. What begins as a scientific expedition becomes something far more profound when they encounter the Collective—an alien intelligence that offers humanity a choice that...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving ...

Solar Express, the thrilling, new, hard science fiction novel from New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.You can't militarize space. This one rule has led to decades of peaceful development of space programs worldwide. However, increasing resource scarcity and a changing climate on Earth's surface is causing some interested parties to militarize, namely India, the North American Union, and the Sinese Federation.The discovery of a strange art...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” (The New York Times Book Review).“Kurzweil offers a thought-provoking analysis of human and artificial intelligence and a unique look at a future in which the capabilities of the computer and the species that invented i...

Drawn from the pages of Scientific American and collected here for the first time, this work contains updated and condensed information, made accessible to a general popular science audience, on the subject of artificial intelligence.

“The world's leading alien hunter” —New York Times MagazineFrom acclaimed Harvard astrophysicist and bestselling author of Extraterrestrial comes a mind-expanding new book on space exploration explaining why becoming an interstellar species is imperative for humanity’s survival and detailing a game plan for how we can settle among the stars.In the New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial,

The essential resource for anyone who reads, writes, watches, or studies science fiction.Men have walked on the Moon. Siri and Alexa manage—at least often enough to be helpful—to make sense of the things we say. Biologists have decoded DNA, and doctors have begun to tailor treatments to suit our individual genetic make-ups. In short: science and tech happen.But faster-than-light travel? Time travel? Telepathy? A six million dollar—as adjusted, of course, for inflation—man? ...

“Expansive and enlightening. . . . Impey packs his prose with wonderful anecdotes and weird factoids.”—New York Times Book ReviewHuman exploration has been an unceasing engine of technological progress, from the first homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to a future in which mankind promises to settle another world. Beyond tells the epic story of humanity leaving home—and how humans will soon thrive in the vast universe beyond the earth.

The study of astronomy offers an unlimited opportunity to obtain a deeper understanding of our planet, the solar system, galaxy milk, and the known universe. Using the Linglanguage approach that has proven to be very popular in the other Fleisch student guides, this book is ideal for the largest of the notices that take introductory astronomy courses. The authors face the problems that students find more problematic, in subjects ranging from stars and from gravity and black holes. Dozens o...

This book is for anyone enthralled by the romantic dream of a voyage 'to the stars.' From our current viewpoint in the twenty-first century, crewed interstellar travel will be an exceptionally difficult undertaking. It will require building a spacecraft on a scale never before attempted, at vast cost, relying on unproven technologies. Yet somehow, through works of science fiction, TV and movies, the idea of human interstellar travel being easy or even inevitable has entered our popular con...

"An enjoyable source of information on a wide variety of real or imagined technological marvels of the space age." —National Space SocietyThis beautifully illustrated pop science book answers the enduring questions raised by science fiction, such as: Do hoverboards really exist, how can you bring a dinosaur back to life and can we really travel in time and space.Packed with stunning images, including seventy-five illustrations created exclusively for this b...

Know technology today, to equip yourself for tomorrow.Using a unique, visual approach, Gerald Lynch explains the most important tech developments of the modern world – examining their impact on society and how, ultimately, we can use technology to achieve our full potential.From the driverless transport systems hitting our roads to the nanobots and artificial intelligence pushing human capabilities to their limits, in 20 dip-in lessons this book introduces ...