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• 7 • Introduction (Visions of the Future) • essay by J. Daniel Batt
• 15 • The Shoulders of Giants • (2000) • short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• 33 • Gift of a Useless Man • (1979) • short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 47 • Light and Shadow • [Skolian Short Fiction • 6] • (1994) • novelette by Catherine Asaro
• 75 • Lungfish • [Existence] • (1986) • novelette by David Brin
• 109 • The Birth of the Dawn • short story by Nicole Sallak Anderson
• 113 • The Weathermakers • (1966) • novelette by Ben Bova
• 145 • Last Day of Work • (2011) • short story by Douglas Rushkoff
• 153 • I'm a What? • (2012) • short story by Frank White
• 161 • The Listeners • [The Listeners] • (1968) • novelette by James E. Gunn
• 193 • The Emperor of Mars • [Near Space] • (2010) • novelette by Allen Steele
• 215 • Lunar One • short story by Jasper T. Scott
• 223 • My Father's Singularity • (2010) • short story by Brenda Cooper
• 231 • A Delicate Balance • (2012) • short story by Kevin J. Anderson
• 243 • More Than the Sum of His Parts • (1985) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 261 • Lazarus Rising • (1982) • short story by Gregory Benford
• 279 • Unit 514 • (2013) • short story by Clayton R. Rawlings
• 293 • Persistence • (2014) • short story by Keith Wiley
• 305 • The Boy Who Gave Us the Stars • (2014) • short story by J. Daniel Batt
• 321 • The Etiology of Infomania • (2014) • short story by Chris Hables Gray
• 333 • Water • (2013) • short story by Ramez Naam
• 349 • Looking Forward: Dialogs with Artilects in the Age of Spiritual Machines • (2014) • short story by Frank W. Sudia
• 359 • Teleporter • (2014) • short story by Jim Tankersley
• 365 • The Spa • short story by Donald Maclean
• 377 • The Automated Ones • (2009) • short story by Hugh Howey
• 385 • The Billionaires' Gambit • novelette by Peg Kay
• 425 • The Children of Men • novella by J. M. Porup
• 487 • Down in the Noodle Forest • (2014) • short story by Jeremy Lichtman
• 501 • A Requiem for Future's Past • short story by Ille C. Gebeshuber
• 519 • Get the Message • short story by Coni Ciongoli Koepfinger
• 537 • New Age Teacher • (2014) • short story by Lawrence A. Baines
• 543 • Blood Music • (1983) • novelette by Greg Bear
• 573 • Our Final Hour • (2003) • essay by Martin Rees [as by Lord Martin Rees]
• 581 • The Significance of Watson • (2011) • essay by Ray Kurzweil
• 587 • Proof That the End of Moore's Law Is Not the End of the Singularity • (2014) • essay by Eric Klein
• 591 • The Future of Energy: Towards the 'Energularity' • essay by
  José Cordeiro^?Jose Cordeiro
  [as by José Cordeiro, MBA, PhD]
• 615 • Intolerable Delays • (2014) • essay by William Faloon
• 633 • Enhanced AI: The Key to Unmanned Space Exploration • (2012) • essay by Tom Kerwick
• 635 • Do It Yourself 'Saving the World' • (2014) • essay by James Blodgett
• 641 • Will Brain Wave Technology Eliminate the Need for a Second Language? • (2014) • essay by Zoltan Istvan
• 645 • Smart Cities Go to the Dogs: How tech-Savvy Cities Will Affect the Canine Population • (2013) • essay by Brenda Cooper
• 649 • Reputation Currencies • (2014) • essay by Heather Schlegel
• 655 • Scientific Advances Are Ruining Science Fiction • essay by Douglas E. Richards
• 661 • 10 Futuristic Materials • (2008) • essay by Michael Anissimov
• 667 • Afterword (Visions of the Future) • (2015) • essay by David Brin