Scanning the Future: 20 Iminent Thinkers on the World of Tomorrow

Yorick Blumenfeld

ISBN 10: 0500280452 / ISBN 13: 9780500280454

Published by Thames & Hudson, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scanning the Future: 20 Iminent Thinkers on the World of Tomorrow
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500280452
• ISBN 13: 9780500280454
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Yorick Blumenfeld has selected twenty articles by distinguished writers and thinkers, including physicists Murray Gell-Mann and Steven Weinberg, biologist Edward Wilson, and statesman Nelson Mandela, for the companion volume to this new series. A comprehensive anthology of thoughts towards building a better future, it is essential reading for anyone concerned about the possibilities for future generations and for the planet. Scanning the Future presents challenging perspectives and stirs the imagination with ideas on the good society, technology and progress, genetics and evolution, and the environment. It shows that we can improve the world through an inventive use of knowledge and that the individual can make a difference.