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| 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 the state of knowledge across a broad range of fields at the millennium's end.
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"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<br> "Well organized, well presented, and stimulating"--Suzanne W. Wood, Library Journal<br> Read more...
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