A review by jandi
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/Or Ruin Everything by Zach Weinersmith, Kelly Weinersmith

4.0

This is a very accessible overview of the current state of research into emerging technologies, from space exploration and multipurpose robots to medical innovations. Each technology receives a chapter, with a few pages for each of several different avenues to tackling the problem. The explanations are reasonably simple to follow, and are interweaved with single panel comics that mostly poke fun at the authors. The one thing that I felt was lacking was technical illustrations; it was not straightforward to visualize some of the solutions (particularly on the space and robotis related chapters), I would have far preferred that to the comics.

Very interesting read, and it is also a fast read (it took me a very long time to get through it because I was reading it one solution at a time along with breakfast).