David A. Coutts - Favourites
For a list of articles by me, see the Articles page.
Books - Popular Science
The Engines Of Creation - K. Eric Drexler
Nano! - Ed Regis
Nanotechnology (Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance) - Edited by BC Crandell
The Millennial Project (Colonising The Galaxy In Eight Easy Steps) - Marshal T. Savage
The Case For Mars - Robert Zubrin
Islands In The Sky (Bold New Ideas For Colonising Space) - from ANALOG, edited by Stanley Schmidt and Robert Zubrin
Mining The Sky - John S. Lewis
Pale Blue Dot (A Vision Of The Human Future In Space) - Carl Sagan
The Giant Leap (Mankind Heads For The Stars) - Adrian Berry
Our Cosmic Future (Humanity's fate in the Universe) - Nikos Prantzos
Remaking Eden (Cloning and Beyond In A Brave New World) - Lee M.Silver
The Age Of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil
Visions - Michio Kaku
The Fabric Of Reality - David Deutsch
Consilience (The Unity Of Knowledge) - Edward O. Wilson
The Origins Of Virtue - Matt Ridley
Genome - Matt Ridley
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
The Extended Phenotype - Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
Unweaving The Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Religion and Science - Bertrand Russel
Destiny Or Chance (Our Solar System and its place in the cosmos) - Stuart Ross Taylor
The Last Mortal Generation - Damien Broderick
The Spike - Damien Broderick
The Ascent Of Man - J. Bronowski
The Ascent Of Science - Brian L. Silver
The Science in Science-Fiction - Peter Nicholls
Future Plagues (Biohazard, disease and pestilence - Mankind's battle for survival) - Peter Brooksmith
Plague, Pox & Pestilence - Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple
Flu (The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused it) - Gina Kolata
The Population Explosion - Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehlrich
Planetary Overload - A. J. Michael
The Future Eaters - Tim Flannery
Guns, Germs & Steel - Jared Diamond
The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
Naked Ape To Superspecies (A Personal Perspective On Humanity And The Global Ecocrisis) - David Suzuki and Holly Dressel
The Clock Of The Long Now (Time and Responsibility) - Stewart Brand
For the ultimately lazy, who only want to read one book (and look at the pretty pictures, as I do), I strongly recommend The Macmillan Atlas Of The Future edited by Ian Pearson. This slim volume (128 pages including bibliography and index) is, in my opinion, the most balanced assessment of "...what lies in store for our world in the 21st century and beyond."
