Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
by Steven Johnson · 14 Jul 2012 · 184pp · 53,625 words
robot on the moon. The foundation has dozens of prizes in development as well, some of them focused on attention-grabbing feats like space or deep-ocean exploration, but others rewarding breakthroughs in education and the life sciences. The foundation prides itself on the way it develops its new prizes, drawing on a
Moon Coastal Oregon
by Judy Jewell and W. C. McRae · 13 Jul 2020 · 366pp · 105,894 words
with the local fauna, visitors can look at underwater images of various places along the Oregon coast (they vary widely!) and live video feeds from deep-ocean exploration in the Pacific. South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve Estuaries, where freshwater and saltwater interface, form some of the richest ecosystems on earth—capable of
Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
by David A. Mindell · 12 Oct 2015 · 265pp · 74,807 words
of research and discovery spanning twenty years. Before moving forward with that story, however, we need to go back in time to the birth of deep-ocean exploration to see how people came to visit the deep seafloor, and how Jason fit into that story. • • • Today we routinely use robots to explore the
The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron
by Rebecca Winters Keegan · 3 Nov 2009 · 250pp · 87,503 words
chain.” Cameron wanted to get back into the sea as soon as possible after Titanic, not just as a scuba-diving tourist but as a deep-ocean explorer. He figured his best shot would be selling a documentary about revisiting the wreck—this time with new technology that would allow him to take
Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars
by Lee Billings · 2 Oct 2013 · 326pp · 97,089 words
and Larry Page of Google, and the billionaire space tourist and software developer Charles Simonyi. Other than Seager, its advisors included the Hollywood filmmaker and deep-ocean explorer James Cameron and a former U.S. Air Force chief of staff, General T. Michael Moseley. The business plan was, at its core, quite simple