BBC Knowledge Asia Edition - December 2014

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TECH IMPROVING OUR LIVES

Compared to how our parents and

grand parents lived during the days of

oil or candle lit rooms, tungsten lights,

and black and white televisions, we are

surrounded by wireless connectivity,

4K UHDTVs and smart phones that put

enormous amounts of computing power

and easily accessible information right at

our fingertips.

This issue we take a look at the

proverbial crystal ball and try to predict

how life as we know it, will change in

40 years. And change it definitely must,

for our traditional sources and space for

food cultivation are insufficient to meet

the needs of our growing population, certain methods of creating

power are high in environmental pollutants and fossil fuel sources

will be depleted in time to come.

Find out how in 40 years, changes in healthcare, medicine,

transportation, housing, work life, taking a vacation, payment

terms and yes, even pet ownership would be worlds apart from our

current practices.

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Experts in this issue...

Sarah

Cruddas

Sarah appears

regularly on TV and

radio to discuss all

things space-related. In this issue, she

looks at commercial efforts to give

tourists the ultimate view of Earth (p74).

Timandra, a full-time

writer and humourist,

loves finding the

funny side of science. She was the

perfect writer to investigate coincidences,

and how unlikely they actually are (p80).

Timandra

Harkness

Frank is the author

of How To Make A Zombie.

He joins Justin Pickard and Paul Graham

Raven in imagining what life will be like in

2054, based on innovations today (p39).

Frank

Swain