The Knowledge: Fantastic Future

In 30 years’ time, will you be holidaying on the moon? In 100 years’ time could you genetically engineer your own pet? In 1000 years’ time will you travel through space in an anti-matter-drive spaceship? Take a time-travelling trip into the future in this fantastic guide! Visit vast skyscraper cities, make friends with robots and cyborgs, colonize far distant galaxies, and watch the very last star go out at the end of the universe. Read the Tomorrow’s Times news reports, discover how to terraform a desert planet … and create a virtual you!

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    This book is fun and interesting. It makes you wonder what the world will be like years in the future

    9 March 2013

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Authors

  • Dr Mike Goldsmith

    Dr Mike Goldsmith is a qualified astro-physicist, working at the National Physical Laboratory. His book on Einstein in the Dead Famous series was shortlisted for the 2002 Aventis junior prize for science writing and he has written Scientists and Inventors in the same series.

  • Daniel Postgate

    Daniel Postgate is the author of The Snagglegrollop.

    Awards

    Daniel Postgate won the Nottinghamshire Children’s Book Award for Smelly Bill in 2006.

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