Review by the bad wolf 0319 -- The Future of Buildings, ...

[the bad wolf 0319]

[Following is a volunteer review of "The Future of Buildings, Transportation and Power" by Roger Duncan and Michael E. Webber.]

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4 out of 4 stars

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The Future of Buildings, Transportation and Power by Roger Duncan and Michael E. Webber is a non-fiction book that shows readers the world of technology. The writer discussed the energy efficiency megatrend and the following consequences, the future of buildings, transportation and power respectively. A book like this shows us the 21st’s magnificent change in technology and information. The professors describe the reliability of Buckminster Fuller’s theory, Ray Kurzweil’s law and the well-known Moore’s Law. As the title shows, the book is predictions of the future, but it's also a history of energy trends.The question in Moore’s Law and in exponential growth, the attractive convergence of these three sectors in the book and the incredible progress in micro-technology and artificial intelligence.

Will the three sectors converge into one? Will the energy efficiency megatrend be accomplished? Will there be more sustainable power? Will artificial intelligence improve so fast that buildings and appliances become sentient-appearing? The book digs deep down to these questions and represents every possible possibility.

The most appealing part to me is that I never thought about all the possibilities in the future until I read this book. The convergence, sentient-appearing buildings, artificial intelligence progress, information intensity, and at some point, even the illustration, all seems possible and fascinating as the book takes the simplest example of routine life that can relate to everyone. And the content is fairly comprehensive because the layer and relationship between each chapter is clear and distinct. The next positive point about this book is the language. The author not only uses the most strict and precise words that represent typical science writing, but adopts a conversational and comfortable writing style. As some of the words are academic and difficult, they are interesting and funny. As I said, the book is new to all and because of this, it includes on-time updated information about the coronavirus pandemic strike and the influence of buildings, transportation and power.

The negative point, however, is some of the ideas in the content are repeated and some of the nouns all arrange together, making the meaning of the sentence difficult to understand.

I rate this book 4 out of 4 mainly because of the splendid content of the book and all the possibilities it represents to me. After 200 pages reading, I only find a little error in grammar and spelling, so I can say that it's properly edited. The limits, unreliability is pointed out explicitly and it's easy to picture a world with eyes closed when I finish the book.

I recommend this book to those who love thinking and picturing the future world and those who are interested in buildings, transportation and power, or in energy, information and technology.There is no need in specific science background because the annotation and the influence and explicit idea even suit beginners to read.

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[MsH2k]

The author not only uses the most strict and precise words that represent typical science writing, but adopts a conversational and comfortable writing style.

That is quite a feat by the author. This sounds like an exciting, thought-provoking read. Thank you for your thorough review!

[Nicholus Schroeder]

This book seems to be quite informative and it's piqued my interest. Gonna have to read this one someday as I really enjoy reading books about how the future is gonna be.

Nice review by the way