Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Death From Above Building a Death Planet 10
Chapter 2 The Ultimate Weapon Making a Death Ray 16
Chapter 3 Shields Up! Creating a Forcefield 24
Chapter 4 Swords of Heat Using Light Swords 32
Chapter 5 Judgment Day The Rise of AI 36
Chapter 6 Stun, Kill, or Disintegrate Ray Guns and Rocket Rifles 42
Chapter 7 Rocket Science How to Fly a Jet Pack 52
Chapter 8 Wormholes Traveling Faster-than-Light 58
Chapter 9 Space-Aged Wagon Trains Traveling by Starship 66
Chapter 10 They Don't Work on Water Real-Life Hoverboards 74
Chapter 11 Are We There Yet? The Flying Car 78
Chapter 12 Living in Space How to Build a Space Colony 84
Chapter 13 What's Next? Conquering Mars 90
Chapter 14 More Than Human Living with Fembots 100
Chapter 15 Atomic Manufacturing The Nanotech Revolution 106
Chapter 16 Man or Machine? Terminator-Style Cyborgs 112
Chapter 17 My Pet T-Rex How Jurassic Park Got it Wrong 122
Chapter 18 Hands-Free Interfaces in an Iron Han World 128
Chapter 19 Auto-Diagnosis Tricorders Beyond Star Trek 134
Chapter 20 Eco-Engineering The Science of Terraforming 142
Chapter 21 Plugging in Bio-ports and Cranial Interfaces 152
Chapter 22 Who's Out There? Searching for Extraterrestrial Life 158
Chapter 23 Stopped Cold Becoming Immortal 166
Chapter 24 Disappearing Act Achieving Invisibility 174
Chapter 25 Building Tomorrow The Cities of the Future 182
