by Brin, David
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Acknowledgement is made for permission to print the following material:
“The Shoulders of Giants,” Copyright 2000 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Star Colonies edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers, DAW Books, New York, June 2000.
“Gift of a Useless Man,” Copyright by Davis Publications, Inc.; first published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, November 1979.
“Light and Shadow,” Copyright by Catherine Asaro; first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 1994.
“Lungfish,” Copyright 1987 by David Brin. First published in The River of Time.
“The Birth of the Dawn,” Copyright 2015 by Nicole Sallak Anderson.
“The Weathermakers,” Copyright by Ben Bova; first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 1966.
“Last Day of Work,” Copyright 2011 by Douglas Rushkoff.
“I’m a What?” Copyright 2012 by Frank White.
“The Listeners,” Copyright by James E. Gunn; first published in Galaxy, September 1968.
“The Emperor of Mars,” Copyright by Allen Steele; first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2010.
“Lunar One,” Copyright 2015 by Jasper T. Scott.
“My Father’s Singularity,” Copyright by Brenda Cooper; first published in Clarkesworld Magazine, June 2010.
“A Delicate Balance,” Copyright by WordFire, Inc.; first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2012.
“More Than the Sum of His Parts,” Copyright by Joe Haldeman; first published in Playboy, May 1985.
“Lazarus Rising,” Copyright 2009 by Gregory Benford.
“Unit 514” originally appeared in Pardon The Disruption. The Future You Never Saw Coming, published November 2013 by Wasteland Press. It is reprinted by permission by authors Clayton R. Rawlings, James Randall Smith, and Rob Bencini who hold the copyright.
“Persistence,” Copyright 2014 by Keith Wiley.
“The Boy Who Gave Us the Stars,” Copyright 2014 by J. Daniel Batt.
“The Etiology of Infomania,” Copyright 2014 by Chris Hables Gray.
“Water,” Copyright 2013 by Ramez Naam.
“Looking Forward: Dialogs with Artilects in the Age of Spiritual Machines,” Copyright 2014 by Frank Sudia.
“Teleporter,” Copyright 2014 by James Jr Tankersley.
“The Spa,” Copyright 2015 by Donald Maclean.
“The Automated Ones,” Copyright 2009 by Hugh Howey.
“The Billionaires’ Gambit,” Copyright 2015 by Peg Kay.
“The Children of Men,” Copyright 2015 by J.M. Porup.
“Down in the Noodle Forest,” Copyright 2014 by Jeremy Lichtman.
“A Requiem for Futures Past,” Copyright 2015 by Ille Gebeshuber.
“Get the Message,” Copyright 2015 by Coni Koepfinger.
“New Age Teacher,” Copyright 2014 by Lawrence Baines.
“Blood Music,” Copyright by Greg Bear; first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1983.
“Our Final Hour,” Copyright 2003 by Lord Martin Rees.
“The Significance of Watson,” Copyright 2011 by Ray Kurzweil; first published at http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-significance-of-watson.
“Proof that the End of Moore’s Law Isn’t the End of the Singularity,” Copyright 2014 by Eric Klien; first published at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/12/proof-that-the-end-of-moores-law-is-not-the-end-of-the-singularity.
“The Future of Energy: Towards the Energularity,” Copyright 2015 by José Cordeiro.
“Intolerable Delays,” Copyright 2014 by William Faloon.
“Enhanced AI: The Key to Unmanned Space Exploration,” Copyright 2012 by Tom Kerwick; first published at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/08/enhanced-ai-the-key-to-unmanned-space-exploration.
“Do It Yourself ‘Saving the World,’” Copyright 2014 by James Blodgett.
“Will Brain Wave Technology Eliminate the Need for a Second Language?” Copyright 2014 by Zoltan Istvan.
“Smart Cities Go to the Dogs: How Tech-Savvy Cities Will Affect the Canine Population,” Copyright by Brenda Cooper; first published in Slate, October 2014.
“Reputation Currencies,” Copyright 2014 by Heather Schlegel. This article is sponsored by (ICE): The Institute of Customer Experience.
“Scientific Advances are Ruining Science Fiction,” Copyright 2015 by Douglas E. Richards.
“10 Futuristic Materials,” Copyright 2008 by Michael Anissimov.
The Lifeboat Foundation would like to thank the following for their assistance in copy editing and proofreading:
Edwin B. Cooper Jr.
Odette Gregory
Peg Kay
Lilia Lens-Pechakova
Patrice Levin Kell
Clay Rawlings
Jim Tankersley
Alan S. Ziegler