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245	0	0	_aPredictions : _b[30 great minds on the future] / _cedited by Sian Griffiths ; with an introduction by Jonathan Weiner.
260			_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1999.
300			_axxi, 328 pages : _billustrations, portraits ; _c19 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_aPredictions is a compelling collection of essays in which 30 influential thinkers—from writers and scientists to activists and philosophers—share their personal visions of the future. Each contributor explores what lies ahead for humanity, technology, the environment, gender, politics, and society. Some predictions are optimistic, imagining advances in artificial intelligence, medicine, and space exploration. Others are cautionary or critical, reflecting on war, inequality, environmental crises, and moral decay. The voices include Umberto Eco, Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Chinua Achebe, Andrea Dworkin, and many others, each bringing their unique perspective. Together, these essays form a rich and diverse tapestry of future-thinking at the dawn of the 21st century, offering insights that still resonate today.
650		0	_aTwenty-first century _vForecasts.
650		4	_aSiglo XXI _vPredicciones _93032
650		0	_aCivilization, Modern _y1950- _xForecasting.
650		4	_aCivilización moderna _y1950- _91521
700	1		_aGriffiths, Sian. _944736 _eeditor
700	1		_aWeiner, Jonathan, _d1953- _947335
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