Visions of Tomorrow

Following a first-class honours degree in Physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Manchester Stephen Webb has worked at a number of UK universities. In addition to shorter works, he has published eleven books – one of which won the SETI League award and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize (now Royal Society Winton Prize) for best science book. He is active in outreach activities, having spoken at numerous international conferences, podcasts and radio shows, and his 2018 TED Talk has been viewed over 6 million times. He has published an undergraduate textbook Measuring the Universe (Springer, 1999) as well as several popular science books, among them New Eyes on the Universe (Springer, 2012) and the second edition of If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? (Springer, 2015).

• Other dimensions of space.- Relativity.- Messaging extraterrestrial intelligence.- First contact.- Applications of machine learning.- The science of persuasion.- The future of science publishing.- Reality–augmented, virtual, and mixed.- Pandemic.- Suspended animation.- Advances in medical technology.- Humans supplanted.