The Early Stuff, (Hardcover)

<p><strong>Seventeen prescient tales</strong> of the near future: from global chaos to our obsession with celebrities, from virtual reality to the final flooding of Calcutta, from genetic engineering to the future of the Internet. A man with a truly perceptive mind sized it all up decades before most people realized what was going down.</p><p><strong>Excerpt</strong><br> Yale had to admit that Harry was one hell of a listener. The guy just sat there, giving you his complete attention. Talking to Harry was easier than talking to a real person. They chatted about a whole range of topics after Jean: how the spark can go out of science when it becomes a full-time job, how a junior faculty member's job is way more than full-time, recent trends in microbiology, pro basketball.</p><p>Yale looked at his watch and yawned, then glanced back at the screen. His security icon was gone. "Harry! What happened to my security?"</p><p>Harry looked taken by surprise. "Oh. Your security features were utterly inadequate. I've constructed an impenetrable firewall for you: antiviral defenses, encryption, rigorous authentication, time-management functions, everything." Harry hushed his voice and leaned forward. "Not all agents are trustworthy, you know. Some are secret agents, some are double agents, and those agents provocateurs--whew!" He clapped himself loudly on the forehead, then peeked through his fingers to catch Yale's reaction.</p><p> </p>

• The Early Stuff, (Hardcover)
• Author: Yogavidya.com
• ISBN: 9780989996655
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2014-08-15
• Page Count: 236