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On the past, present & future :

0880299398

9780880299398

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On the past, present & future :

[Book]

66 essays /

Isaac Asimov.

New York :

Barnes & Noble Books,

1992, ©1987.

viii, 374 pages ;

24 cm

Cont. Future: The elevator effect ; 2084 ; Society in the future ; Feminism for survival ; TV and the race with doom ; The next seventy years in the courts ; The future of costume ; The immortal word ; Liberty in the next century ; The villian in the atmosphere ; The new learning ; Technology, you, your family, and the future ; Should we fear the future? ; Should we fear the computer? ; Work changes its meaning ; Nuclear dreams and nightmares ; The new tools in space ; Living on the moon, parts I and II ; The skies of luna ; The solar system for humanity ; The clinical lab of the future ; The hospital of the future ; Medicine from space ; Revising the pattern ; Putting bacteria to work ; Fiddling with genes.

Past: Unity ; The scientist as unbeliever ; The choking grip ; Human mutations ; The hollow earth ; Poison! ; Competition! ; Benjamin Franklin changes the world ; Fifty years of astronomy ; The myth of the machine -- Present: The perennial fringe ; The case against 'Star Wars' ; Short term; long term ; The useful ivory tower ; Do it first! ; Popularizing science ; The pace of research ; The brain ; Darwin and natural selection ; Cool light ; Halley's Comet-- destination space ; Ice in orbit ; Looking for our neighbors ; Life is wherever it lands ; Einstein's theory of relativity ; What is the universe made of? ; Science and science fiction ; The dark vision ; The lure of horror ; Movie science ; Book into movie ; My hollywood non-career ; I love New York ; The immortal Sherlock Holmes ; Gilbert & Sullivan ; Mensa and I ; Write, write, write ; Facing up to it ; Triple bypass.

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On the past, present and future

Civilization, Modern-- 20th century.

Science and civilization.

Science-- Forecasting.

Science-- Social aspects.

Social change.

Twenty-first century, Forecasts.

Civilization, Modern.

Science and civilization.

Science-- Forecasting.

Science-- Social aspects.

Social change.

Twenty-first century.

Asimov, Isaac,1920-1992.

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