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...technologies - such as wind-farms, heat exchangers, photovoltaic panels and combined heat and power plants - provide the opportunity to revolutionise energy markets and turn whole communities and districts green. One town in Holland is a good example of a “suburban energy island”, where the solar-panelled buildings act as energy providers back to the main grid when...

...technologies which underpin everyday life in our towns and cities. Indeed, cities of multiple intelligences which include both artificial and human ones have arrived...The recent AI Safety Summit and press coverage suggest we need to think carefully about these new urban technologies. On one hand, the benefits of these new automated technologies such as driverless cars...

...technologies that drive our networked world and how they now permeate our everyday lives...We now live in a global village where distance is no longer a barrier to commercial or social contact. This free course, IT in everyday life, will enable you to gain an understanding of the information and communication technologies that drive our networked world and how they now...

...technology and humanity. The interfaces that communicate between man and machine are developing rapidly and to Prof. Kevin Warwick at Reading University, cyborgs are a technological evolutionary step forward from humans. With increasingly intelligent robots and nano-technologies, can man keep up with the machines? This material forms part of The Open University course...

...Education, 2000, 2003. Copyright © David Rothery In this chapter you will learn: about the nearest planetary body to the Earth about the long record of impact cratering on its surface, and about the ancient eruptions that flooded many low-lying areas. PLANETARY FACTS Equatorial radius (km) 1738 Mass (relative to Earth) 0.0123 (7.35 × 1022 kg) Density (g/cm3) 3.34...