PROSPECTS FOR TOMORROW
Scanning the Future

20 Eminent Thinkers on the World of Tomorrow

Edited and introduced by Yorick Blumenfeld

At the end of a century of breathtaking change we are increasingly curious about the future, but most of us seem stuck fast in the thinking habits of the past. In this anthology Yorick Blumenfeld introduces us to the many different and thought-provoking ways in which specialists approach the future.
Twenty extracts have been selected from the work of distinguished writers and thinkers (among them four Nobel Prize winners), including physicists Murray Gell-Mann and Steven Weinberg, sociologist Robert Bellah, biologist Edward Wilson and statesman Nelson Mandela. Just a few of the many subjects covered are: the good society; technology and progress; genetics and evolution, biology and morality; the end of money; the future of the environment; a satirical view of the 21st century.



ISBN 0500280452