"Boston, present day. A young man from a shadowy government agency shows up at an Ivy League university and offers an eminent professor a lot of money to study a trove of recently discovered old documents. The only condition: the professor must sign an NDA that would preclude him from publishing his findings, should they be significant. The professor refuses and tells the young man to get lost. On his way out, he bumps into a young woman--a low-on-the-totem-pole...

Find out about the technological breakthroughs and brilliant inventions that have shaped the modern world. Investigate the science behind everyday life - from cameras and computers to communication and transportation.

Plastic mysteriously begins to liquefy, leading to the failure of major electronics and disruption in the lives of the people of Sycamore River.

"In Superconvergence, leading futurist Jamie Metzl explores how genome sequencing, gene editing, artificial intelligence, and other technologies are not only changing our lives, but catalyzing each other in radical and accelerating ways. These technologies have the potential to improve our health, feed billions of people, supercharge our economies, and store essential information for millions of years, but can also-if we are not careful-do immeasurable...

Technology is all around us - from the phones and computers we use, to the homes we live in! This mega-jam packed book features brilliant technology timelines, awesome activities, and inspiring profiles of famous innovators. Discover the amazing technological inventions that have changed our whole world... Welcome to cool technology!

Nature may abhor a vacuum but we seem to love them. They clean our floors and deliver medicine, they've got the suction power needed by industry, they're first on the scene at catastrophic sites and they battle algae that's destroying coral reefs, they even cut out hair.

Even though technology and inventions have been outlawed in the mountain city of Cove, in order to save the city Trenton and Kallista must follow a set of mysterious blueprints to build a creature to protect them from the dragons outside their door.

"From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most...