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    Really? Wow!
    Really? Wow!
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    Really? Wow!

    By Bill Thurston

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    Maybe the most positive, exciting, new, major event in humankind history will be upon us in less than five decades. It may truly be a start of a new phase for human existence. I believe all of us, as a world society, will willingly embrace the discovery and make basic human changes that will support a much better world for us and future generations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBill Thurston
    Release dateDec 29, 2012
    ISBN9780988654488
    Really? Wow!
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    Bill Thurston

    Bill worked in Silicon Valley in the computer industry for over 40 years. Many of those years were with the Hewlett Packard Company. At HP, he held management positions in sales, marketing, and R&D, as well as senior management positions for various groups and divisions. He authored a trade secret owned by Hewlett Packard. He owned a dot.com company during the dot.com boom in the 1990s and has helped several medium-size technology companies as a Senior VP. Today, Bill stays involved in the industry by serving on the Board of Directors of fast-growing Silicon Valley technology companies. On the personal side, Bill is a combat veteran from the Vietnam War, he runs marathons, races a super stock car, enjoys golf, sculpts in exotic woods, is qualified as a member of Mensa, enjoys world travel with his wife, and most of all, enjoys time with his friends and family. His book "Really? Wow!" was possible because of this experience and knowledge combined with his lifelong curiosity and interest in the future of the human race.

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      Really? Wow! - Bill Thurston

      Really? Wow!

      An extraordinary projection of

      what will become of the human race.

      By

      Bill Thurston

      Really? Wow!

      Copyright © 2012 Thurston Group Inc.

      Smashwords Edition

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return it to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including by photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system without written permission from the author, except for inclusions or brief quotations in a review.

      For information about the contents of this book, or permission for reproducing portions of this book, please email the author at thurstongroup@cox.net.

      Published in the United States

      ISBN-13: 978-0-9886544-8-8

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      1. What is the process we will use?

      2. Fields of Interest

      3. Human Physiology Past to Present

      4. The Computer Past to Present

      5. Robotics Past to Present

      6. Wireless Communication Past to Present

      7. Mathematics & Physics Past to Present

      8. Human Perception Past to Present

      9. Connections Between These Fields Today

      10. Why Use a Period of 20 Years?

      11. Human Physiology in 2032

      12. The Computer in 2032

      13. Robotics in 2032

      14. Wireless Communications in 2032

      15. Mathematics and Physics in 2032

      16. Human Perception in 2032

      17. Connections Between These Fields in 2032

      18. How will these changes affect us in 2032?

      19. Human Physiology in 2062

      20. The Computer in 2062

      21. Robotics in 2062

      22. Wireless Communication in 2062

      23. Mathematics & Physics in 2062

      24. Human Perception in 2062

      25. Connections between these fields in 2062

      26. The Big Dilemma

      Acknowledgments

      Thanks to my wife, Debbie, who allowed me to go to my cave for over a year to create this book.

      Thanks also to family, friends, and business acquaintances who provided much of my knowledge that enabled this book to happen.

      Introduction

      Maybe the most positive, exciting, new, major event in humankind history will be upon us in less than five decades. It may truly be a start of a new phase for human existence. I believe all of us, as a world society, will willingly embrace the discovery and make basic human changes that will support a much better world for us and future generations.

      We have all the information we need today to be able to present this discovery with a very simple projection process. More detail about this projection process will be presented in the next chapter.

      Why use the word projection instead of prediction? Well, a prediction is a statement about the way things will happen in the future, often—but not always—based on experience or knowledge. So anybody could make a prediction about anything! A projection is a prediction based on known evidence and observation. That is the process used in this book.

      You might ask, Doesn't this require thousands of scientists working for decades in many fields in order to come up with this type of major human discovery? Of course the answer is yes and we do have countless people around the world improving human understanding on a daily basis. The key is that nobody has evaluated the convergence of many complicated sciences to make all of us aware of this discovery that is almost upon us. I guarantee you that if somebody had published this new discovery, you would have already read about it or heard about it through the media.

      We will address six very complex fields of interest in such a way that all of us can understand it independent of any person’s particular technical understanding of the six subjects. Introduction to these six fields will be presented in Chapter 2 titled Fields of Interest.

      Before getting started, there are a set of simple intellectual positions that are used to produce everything in the book. Here is a list of those positions.

      All thoughts in this book stem from our human senses and the brain power we possess to understand our environment.

      In order to have a future understanding, you need to start with having some present understanding.

      A human’s ability to reason is a key to the understanding presented in this book.

      A human’s ability to develop tools is a key to the understanding presented in this book.

      Understanding the history of human discovery is a key to unlock next steps in discovery.

      Change in human physiology was important to us in the early years of our existence. Things like developing an opposable thumb, walking upright, an increase in brain size, all contributed to our position in the world today. Growth in human understanding today depends very little on humans’ changing physiology. Today human under-standing comes from our mental abilities to create tools and to develop new ideas.

      The growth of human understanding today follows a simple pattern.

      Here is that Human Understanding Process:

      We investigate things or by chance something new is brought to our attention.

      We then discover something and can rediscover it over and over again.

      We experiment with it and learn more about it.

      We understand it and define it. We do this with our mathematics and physics.

      We use it to our advantage which triggers more investigation.

      We make tools based on the discovery.

      The discovery becomes part of human under-standing which allows new investigations and discoveries.

      While reading this book, you may not believe or not want to believe one of the assumptions or projections. At that time you could put the book down and not finish the journey. I hope your curiosity allows you to finish the journey; but if not, maybe in the future as humans roll out new discoveries, you may want to take a second look.

      Many of today's events in human society are very troubling and we are eager to find solutions. I believe solutions to many of our societies’

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