Predictions: Thirty Great Minds on the Future

Griffiths, Sian (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0192862103 / ISBN 13: 9780192862105

Editore: Oxford University Press, New York, New York, U. S. A., 1999

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• Titolo: Predictions: Thirty Great Minds on the Future
• Editore: Oxford University Press, New York, New York, U. S. A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0192862103
• ISBN 13: 9780192862105
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
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Riassunto

Here are a series of tantalizing predictions about the coming century, delivered by thirty of today's greatest minds--including Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel Dennett, Sherry Turkle, Steven Weinberg, Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, and John Kenneth Galbraith.
This glittering list of contributors includes Nobel laureates, bestselling writers, intellectual icons, and scientists at the cutting edge of research. Readers can sample everything from Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe's hopes for the future of Africa in the next century, to feminist Andrea Dworkin's dream of a new Jerusalem for women. Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke serves up a series of startling visions, including the possibility that, by the year 2050, large sea creatures will be found beneath the ice-covered oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa. Steven Pinker suggests that the completion of the Humane Genome Project will lead to a sudden jump in our knowledge about the genetic basis of our emotions and our learning abilities. And Richard Dawkins believes that the ancient mind-body problem will be solved--not by philosophers but by scientists. Each prediction is preceded by an intriguing profile of the author--blending a lively interview with biographical data--which conveys a vivid sense of the individual while setting their work in context and explaining their theories or inventions. These fascinating interviews, previously published in The Times Higher Education Supplement, give us instant capsule portraits of some of our most brilliant living thinkers.
Predictions is an exciting roadmap to the future as well as a vivid snapshot of the state of human knowledge at the end of the millennium.

Informazioni sull?autore

Sian Griffiths is the features editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement, editor of Beyond the Glass Ceiling and co-editor (with Jennifer Wallace) of Consuming Passions: Food in the Age of Anxiety. He lives in the UK.