num_pages: 122
description: Free ebook download (pdf).In 2013 our Technology Horizons Program commissioned six leading science fiction writersCory Doctorow (@doctorow) Rudy Rucker (@rudytheelder) Warren Ellis (@warrenellis) Madeline Ashby (@MadelineAshby) Ramez Naam (@ramez) and Bruce Sterling (@bruces)and artist Daniel Martin Diaz to create short stories tied to our research on the coming Age of Networked Matter (#networkedmatter). We asked our collaborators to envision a world where humans have unprecedented control of matter at all scales and to share with us a glimpse of daily life in that world. It was a process meant to make the future tangible.
language: English
title: An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter
publisher: http://www.iftf.org/fanfutures/