Next Fifty Years Science In The First Half Of The Twenty First Century - John Brockman

Scientists love to speculate about the direction research and technology will take us, and editor John Brockman has given a stellar panel free rein to imagine the future in The Next Fifty Years.

From brain-swapping and the hunt for extraterrestrials to the genetic elimination of unhappiness and a new scientific morality, the ideas in this book are wild and thought-provokin Scientists love to speculate about the direction research and technology will take us, and editor John Brockman has given a stellar panel free rein to imagine the future in The Next Fifty Years.

The list of scientists and thinkers who participate is impressive: Lee Smolin and Martin Rees on cosmology, Ian Stewart on mathematics, and Richard Dawkins and Paul Davies on the life sciences, just to name a few.

Many of the authors remind readers that science has changed a lot since the blind optimism of the early 20th century, and they are unanimously aware of the potential consequences of the developments they describe.

Fifty years is a long time in the information age, and these essays do a credible and entertaining job of guessing where we're going.

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