Examines the next step in the evolutionary process of the union of human and machine. This title offers a view of the coming age that is both a dramatic culmination of centuries of technological ingenuity and a genuinely inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny.

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party.

Italian Futurism proclaimed the bankruptcy of an artistic culture that clung to the forms and values of the past. The movement was launched in 1909 and a group of spectacular talents set out to revolutionize human culture. It was a young man's movement, eventually overtaken by war and Fascism.

From brain transplants to parallel universes, a dazzling array of scientists look at what the future may hold.

This volume collects the research of today's scientists to explore the possibilities of the science of tomorrow. Among the issues covered are how decoding DNA will allow us to alter and reshape our genetic heritage, and how quantum physicists will harness the energy of the Universe.

Aims to expose technology, spotlight existing prototypes and reveal drawing-board plans. This book helps you learn which technologies are available, who made them, and where to find them. It also helps you learn how to build, buy, or steal the technology which is not public.

Includes the author's views on overpopulation, propaganda, advertising and government control. This book appeals for the defence of relevant individualism.

Trying to make sense of Timothy Leary's eight neurological circuits, G I Gurdjieff's self-observations exercises, Alfred Korzybski's general semantics, Aleister Crowley's magical theorems, and the several disciplines of Yoga, this is a book about how the human mind works and what you can do to make the most of yours.

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.

Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge. .

CD-ROM and Book. Man's on-going conquest of the solar system has been much publicised for its miraculous accomplishments. What is generally less publicised are the potential uses of space beyond simply landing men on another planet. 'Flags and foot-prints' is something we can all be proud of, but the true value of near-Earth space lies with the possibilities for manufacturing and colonisation. ...

A guide to the next great wave of technology - an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything, writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic. .

Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siecle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. Exiled from the past, West excitedly settles into the ideal society of the future, while still fearing that he has dreamt up his experiences as a time traveller.

A controversial but optimistic book about humanity's increasing co-operation and our technological future

In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?

In this text, the author outlines his scenaric approach to developing a strategic vision for businesses, drawing on work done for institutions and companies such as the White House, EPA and the International Stock Exchange.

Neuromancer is the most influential science fiction novel of our time. Cyberspace and virtual reality were invented in this book. It changed forever the way we look at tomorrow and was the inspiration behind the blockbuster film The Matrix. In 2009 it celebrates its 25th Anniversary.

Is a modern illustrated primer on the new inventions, technologies, and events that are affecting the human race worldwide. The book is a part of a broader research project by Bruce Mau Design intended to provoke debate and discussion about the familiar objects and techniques that are transforming our lives.