By Daniel Berleant
Do you ask yourself concerning the future... what issues can be like a few day, how lengthy it could actually take, and what we will do approximately it?
Substantive but resourceful, readable, sometimes funny, and technological know-how orientated, this publication proposes attainable destiny situations spanning from the present century to almost eternity. so much chapters supply a concluding part with suggestions and infrequently, agree or disagree, the author's sometimes inimitable evaluations. many of the instructed activities should be performed by means of participants, others by way of countries or different teams, and nonetheless others via the full global. Over three hundred references.
Discover "What it implies that an Hour’s paintings Yields a Week’s Food" (chapter 1). Foresee the "Teeming towns of Mars" (chap. 21). examine why it’s "Keyboards the day gone by, brain studying Tomorrow" (chap. 3). have you questioned — "Will synthetic Intelligence Threaten Civilization?" (See chap. 12.) discover what occurs "When Genomes Get Cheap" (chap. 6). organize for an "Asteroid Apocalypse" (chap. 25). discover why you will reap the benefits of "Wiki-Wiki-Wikipedia" (chap. 4). How we'll "Live anyplace, paintings wherever Else" (chap. 2). discover how the long run "Tastes just like the Singularity" (chap. 15). Get smarter with "Smart Pills’n Such" (chap. 5). event a "Soylent Spring" (chap. 9). comprehend nukes larger by means of "Deconstructing Nonproliferation" (chap. 13). prepare for a "Space Empire" (chap. 14). what's "Sic Transit Humanitas: The Transcent of Man" (chap. 26)? There’s international warming, and there’s "Warm, Poison Planet" (chap. 17). yet let’s no longer ignore "Big Ice" (chap. 22). issues may perhaps fairly develop on bushes with "New Plant Paradigms" (chap. 24). all of us have "Questions" (chap. 31). and masses more!
This e-book is geared toward the reader who's attracted to the longer term, and intrigued via technology and know-how.
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So you can tell him to buy a list of things such as bread, cheese, and wine. This is equivalent to calling a method goAndBuy with a list of products as argument. But one day you’re at the office and you need him to do something he’s never done before: pick up a package from the post office. You now need to pass him a list of 37 instructions: go to the post office, use this reference number, talk to the manager, and pick up the parcel. You could pass him the list of instructions by email, and when he receives it, he can go ahead and follow the instructions.
36 Chapter 2. Passing code with behavior parameterization This chapter covers Coping with changing requirements Behavior parameterization Anonymous classes Preview of lambda expressions Real-world examples: Comparator, Runnable, and GUI A well-known problem in software engineering is that no matter what you do, user requirements will change. For example, imagine an application to help a farmer understand his inventory. The farmer might want a functionality to find all green apples in his inventory.
The simplest solution, which you might employ for your own interfaces, would have been for the Java 8 designers simply to add the stream method to the Collection interface and add the implementation in the ArrayList class. But doing this would have been a nightmare for users. There are many alternative collection frameworks that implement interfaces from the Collections API. Adding a new method to an interface means all concrete classes must provide an implementation for it. Language designers have no control on all existing implementations of Collections, so you have a bit of a dilemma: how can you evolve published interfaces without disrupting existing implementations?