skip to content
Predictions : [30 great minds on the future]
ClosePreview this item

Predictions : [30 great minds on the future]

Author: Sian Griffiths
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
"This new book contains a series of predictions about the 21st century from thirty of today's great minds - including Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Dawkins, Umberto Eco, J. K. Galbraith, Steven Pinker, and Peter Singer." "The predictions outline the discoveries and changes that the contributors expect to see happen, both inside and outside their own fields. Each prediction is preceded by a profile of the  Read more...
Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

&AllPage.SpinnerRetrieving; Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Genre/Form: Forecasts
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Predictions.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607413489
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sian Griffiths
ISBN: 0192862103 9780192862105
OCLC Number: 42745996
Description: xxi, 328 p. : ports. ; 19 cm.
Contents: The colour line / Chinua Achebe --
Gene therapies / French Anderson --
Language design / Noam Chomsky --
2099 ... the beginning of history / Arthur C. Clarke --
Three 'origin' mysteries / Paul Davies --
A riddle I long to answer ... / Richard Dawkins --
Protecting public health / Daniel Dennett --
The century of A.R.T. / Carl Djerassi --
A new Jerusalem for women / Andrea Dworkin --
Never fall in love with your own airship / Umberto Eco --
The politics of women / Francis Fukuyama --
Penalize the bankers, not the workers / J.K. Galbraith --
Winning the battle for the human heart / Daniel Goleman --
Unpredictable patterns / Stephen Jay Gould --
George Orwell's 1984 ... in 2084 / Susan Greenfield --
Proof positive for wet mergers in the eternal takeover / Lynn Margulis --
Cognitive prostheses / Don Norman --
Complex cancers, simple cells / Paul Nurse --
Increasing consilience / Steven Pinker --
Sequestration / Sherwood Rowland --
Things to come / Amartya Sen --
Optimism v. pessimism / Elain Showalter --
A new ethics / Peter Singer --
A basic human right / Dale Spender --
Fossils for the future / Chris Stringer --
Toys to change our minds / Sherry Turkle --
Mind machines / Kevin Warwick --
Re-directing the course of human evolution / James Watson --
A theory of everything / Steven Weinberg --
Closing the gap / Slavoj Žižek.
Responsibility: edited by Sian Griffiths ; with an introduction by Jonathan Weiner.

Abstract:

Each of the 30 predictions here is followed by a profile of the writer, setting his or her work in context and explaining the theories or inventions. Taken as a whole, the book provides a snapshot of  Read more...

Reviews

Editorial reviews

Publisher Synopsis

"What would millennium fever be without predictions about what the future holds? This fascinating book offers thoughtful essays from a multinational melange of well-regarded thinkers."--Booklist Read more...

 
User-contributed reviews
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Linked Data


<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42745996>
library:oclcnum"42745996"
library:placeOfPublication
library:placeOfPublication
library:placeOfPublication
owl:sameAs<info:oclcnum/42745996>
rdf:typeschema:Book
rdfs:seeAlso
rdfs:seeAlso
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:contributor
schema:datePublished"1999"
schema:genre"Forecasts"
schema:inLanguage"en"
schema:name"Predictions : [30 great minds on the future]"
schema:numberOfPages"328"
schema:publisher
schema:reviews
rdf:typeschema:Review
schema:itemReviewed<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42745996>
schema:reviewBody""This new book contains a series of predictions about the 21st century from thirty of today's great minds - including Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Dawkins, Umberto Eco, J. K. Galbraith, Steven Pinker, and Peter Singer." "The predictions outline the discoveries and changes that the contributors expect to see happen, both inside and outside their own fields. Each prediction is preceded by a profile of the author, setting their work in context and explaining their theories or inventions."--BOOK JACKET."
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.