我的飞行汽车在哪里？（J·斯托尔斯·霍尔) Where Is My Flying Car?

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stripe Press

Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 30, 2021

Edition ‏ : ‎ First print

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 332 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1953953182

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1953953186

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

本书出自一位工程师兼未来学家之手，热情洋溢地讲述了自20世纪70年代以来科技停滞不前的现状，并描绘了一幅更加富足、繁荣的未来蓝图。

20世纪60年代的科幻小说曾描绘了一个由科技创新重塑的未来：我们可以在火星上的球形穹顶中度假，与电脑进行有意义的对话，乘坐飞行汽车送孩子上学。然而，60年过去了，我们依然困在拥堵的车流中，驾驶着耗油的轿车，乘坐着与半个多世纪前几乎相同的飞机。我们曾被许诺的未来究竟去了哪里？

在《我的飞行汽车在哪里？》一书中，J·斯托尔斯·霍尔试图解答这个看似简单却意义深远的问题。本书一开始探讨了制造飞行汽车的技术局限性，随后深入探究了始于20世纪70年代的经济停滞背后的科学、技术和社会根源。从未能采用核能、压制冷聚变技术，到敌视进步的兴起，霍尔回顾了我们对未来的共同愿景如何偏离轨道，并对全球财富的创造和分配造成了毁灭性的后果。随后，他概述了一个由指数级进步驱动的未来框架——在这个框架下，我们在原子世界和比特世界中的成就同样巨大，一个充满富足和奇迹的未来。

《我的飞行汽车在哪里？》一书出版于2018年，它汲取了作者多年的原创研究和个人工程经验，是对过去50年技术进步的紧迫而及时的分析，并提出了一个关于更美好未来的大胆愿景。

From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future.

The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation. We’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years, and we’re still stuck in traffic in gas-guzzling sedans and boarding the same types of planes we flew in over half a century ago. What happened to the future we were promised?

In Where Is My Flying Car?, J. Storrs Hall sets out to answer this deceptively simple question. What starts as an examination of the technical limitations of building flying cars evolves into an investigation of the scientific, technological, and social roots of the economic stagnation that started in the 1970s. From the failure to adopt nuclear energy and the suppression of cold fusion technology to the rise of a counterculture hostile to progress, Hall recounts how our collective ambitions for the future were derailed, with devastating consequences for global wealth creation and distribution. He then outlines a framework for a future powered by exponential progress—one in which we build as much in the world of atoms as we do in the world of bits, one rich in abundance and wonder.

Drawing on years of original research and personal engineering experience, Where Is My Flying Car?, originally published in 2018, is an urgent, timely analysis of technological progress over the last 50 years and a bold vision for a better future.

作者简介

J·斯托尔斯·霍尔博士是一位独立科学家和作家。他曾是Nanorex公司的创始科学家，也是Foresight研究所的所长。目前，他是分子制造研究所的研究员，也是《国际纳米技术与分子计算杂志》的副主编。他还被政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）认可为计算气候模型领域的专家评审员。霍尔博士之前的著作包括《超越人工智能：创造机器的良知》和《纳米未来：纳米技术的未来》。如今，他居住在切萨皮克湾畔，并在Eastern Shore Flying Cars, LLC公司的支持下从事空气动力学设计工作。他住在弗吉尼亚州。

J. Storrs Hall, PhD, is an independent scientist and author. He was the founding chief scientist of Nanorex, Inc. and a president of the Foresight Institute. He is currently a research fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing and an associate editor of the International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation. He was also accredited as an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in the field of computational climate models. Hall’s previous books include Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine and Nanofuture: What’s Next for Nanotechnology. Now residing on Chesapeake Bay, he dabbles in aerodynamics design under the auspices of Eastern Shore Flying Cars, LLC. He lives in Virginia.