Predictions
Subtitle: [30 great minds on the future]
By: edited by Sian Griffiths ; with an introduction by Jonathan Weiner.
Contributors: Griffiths, Sian.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.; Civilization, Modern -- 1950- -- Forecasting.
Genres: Forecasts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The colour line / Chinua Achebe; title: Gene therapies / French Anderson; title: Language design / Noam Chomsky; title: 2099...the beginning of history / Arthur C. Clarke; title: Three 'origin' mysteries / Paul Davies; title: A riddle I long to answer... / Richard Dawkins; title: Protecting public health / Daniel Dennett; title: The century of A.R.T. / Carl Djerassi; title: A new Jerusalem for women / Andrea Dworkin; title: Never fall in love with your own airship / Umberto Eco; title: The politics of women / Francis Fukuyama; title: Penalize the bankers, not the workers / J.K. Galbraith; title: Winning the battle for the human heart / Daniel Goleman; title: Unpredictable patterns / Stephen Jay Gould; title: George Orwell's 1984...in 2084 / Susan Greenfield; title: Proof positive for wet mergers in the eternal takeover / Lynn Margulis; title: Cognitive prostheses / Don Norman; title: Complex cancers, simple cells / Paul Nurse; title: Increasing consilience / Steven Pinker; title: Sequestration / Sherwood Rowland; title: Things to come / Amartya Sen; title: Optimism v. pessimism / Elain Showalter; title: A new ethics / Peter Singer; title: A basic human right / Dale Spender; title: Fossils for the future / Chris Stringer; title: Toys to change our minds / Sherry Turkle; title: Mind machines / Kevin Warwick; title: Re-directing the course of human evolution / James Watson; title: A theory of everything / Steven Weinberg; title: Closing the gap / Slavoj Žižek.