Here is a whirlwind yet efficiently compact tour along today's technological frontiers. In 27 remarkably succinct chapters, the author presents simple but scientifically explained capsule descriptions of the kind of technological innovations we can look for in power supply, transportation, communication, food supply, and many other areas; telling of solar power, hovercraft, miniaturization, transistors, lasers, computers, just to mention a very few. A good introduction to man's future practical applications of his scientific discoveries for the high school student with some scientific orientation or interest.