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- catalog abstract ""This new book contains a series of predictions about the 21st century from thirty of today's great minds - including Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Dawkins, Umberto Eco, J.K. Galbraith, Steven Pinker, and Peter Singer." "The predictions outline the discoveries and changes that the contributors expect to see happen, both inside and outside their own fields. Each prediction is preceded by a profile of the author, setting their work in context and explaining their theories or inventions."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Predictions, 30 great minds on the future".
- catalog contributor b11548659.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""This new book contains a series of predictions about the 21st century from thirty of today's great minds - including Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Dawkins, Umberto Eco, J.K. Galbraith, Steven Pinker, and Peter Singer." "The predictions outline the discoveries and changes that the contributors expect to see happen, both inside and outside their own fields. Each prediction is preceded by a profile of the author, setting their work in context and explaining their theories or inventions."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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 / 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.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 328 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Predictions.".
- catalog identifier "0192862103".
- catalog isFormatOf "Predictions.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Predictions.".
- catalog subject "303.49/09/05 21".
- catalog subject "CB161 .P72 1999".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Modern 1950- Forecasting.".
- catalog subject "Twenty-first century Forecasts.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 / 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.".
- catalog title "Predictions / edited by Sian Griffiths ; with an introduction by Jonathan Weiner.".
- catalog title "Predictions, 30 great minds on the future".
- catalog type "Forecasts. fast".
- catalog type "text".