Predictions : [30 great minds on the future] / edited by Sian Griffiths ; with an introduction by Jonathan Weiner.
| Other author | Griffiths, Sian. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. |
| Description | xxi, 328 pages : portraits ; 19 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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 / Andrew 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. |
| General note | Subtitle from spine. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 0192862103 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | CB161 .P74 1999 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |