Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction (Visions of the Future) • (2015) • essay by J. Daniel Batt
• The Shoulders of Giants • (2000) • short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• Gift of a Useless Man • (1979) • short story by Alan Dean Foster
• Light and Shadow • [Skolian short fiction • 6] • (1994) • novelette by Catherine Asaro
• Lungfish • [Existence] • (1986) • novelette by David Brin
• The Birth of the Dawn • (2015) • short story by Nicole Sallak Anderson
• The Weathermakers • (1966) • novelette by Ben Bova
• Last Day of Work • (2011) • short story by Douglas Rushkoff
• I'm a What? • (2012) • short story by Frank White
• The Listeners • [The Listeners] • (1968) • novelette by James E. Gunn
• The Emperor of Mars • [Near Space] • (2010) • novelette by Allen Steele
• Lunar One • (2015) • short story by Jasper T. Scott
• My Father's Singularity • (2010) • short story by Brenda Cooper
• A Delicate Balance • (2012) • short story by Kevin J. Anderson
• More Than the Sum of His Parts • (1985) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• Lazarus Rising • (1982) • short story by Gregory Benford
• Unit 514 • (2013) • short story by Clayton R. Rawlings
• Persistence • (2014) • short story by Keith Wiley
• The Boy Who Gave Us the Stars • (2014) • short story by J. Daniel Batt
• The Etiology of Infomania • (2014) • short story by Chris Hables Gray
• Water • (2013) • short story by Ramez Naam
• Looking Forward: Dialogs with Artilects in the Age of Spiritual Machines • (2014) • short story by Frank W. Sudia
• Teleporter • (2014) • short story by Jim Tankersley
• The Spa • (2015) • short story by Donald Maclean
• The Automated Ones • (2009) • short story by Hugh Howey
• The Billionaires' Gambit • (2015) • novelette by Peg Kay
• The Children of Men • (2015) • novella by J. M. Porup
• Down in the Noodle Forest • (2014) • short story by Jeremy Lichtman
• A Requiem for Future's Past • (2015) • short story by Ille C. Gebeshuber
• Get the Message • (2015) • short story by Coni Ciongoli Koepfinger
• New Age Teacher • (2014) • short story by Lawrence A. Baines
• Blood Music • (1983) • novelette by Greg Bear
• Our Final Hour • (2003) • essay by Martin Rees [as by Lord Martin Rees]
• The Significance of Watson • (2011) • essay by Ray Kurzweil
• Proof That the End of Moore's Law Is Not the End of the Singularity • (2014) • essay by Eric Klein
• The Future of Energy: Towards the 'Energularity' • (2015) • essay by
  José Cordeiro^?Jose Cordeiro
  [as by José Cordeiro, MBA, PhD]
• Intolerable Delays • (2014) • essay by William Faloon
• Enhanced AI: The Key to Unmanned Space Exploration • (2012) • essay by Tom Kerwick
• Do It Yourself 'Saving the World' • (2014) • essay by James Blodgett
• Will Brain Wave Technology Eliminate the Need for a Second Language? • (2014) • essay by Zoltan Istvan
• Smart Cities Go to the Dogs: How tech-Savvy Cities Will Affect the Canine Population • (2013) • essay by Brenda Cooper
• Reputation Currencies • (2014) • essay by Heather Schlegel
• Scientific Advances Are Ruining Science Fiction • (2015) • essay by Douglas E. Richards
• 10 Futuristic Materials • (2008) • essay by Michael Anissimov
• Afterword (Visions of the Future) • (2015) • essay by David Brin