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The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century

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  • ENGLISH

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  • 320

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  • 9780753817100

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  • 1 mm

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  • 12 mm

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  • 19 gram

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  • THE

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 6 NOVEMBER 2003

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    From Dolly the sheep to the Human Genome Project, the last fifty years have seen unprecedented leaps in our scientific understanding that have revolutionised our perception of ourselves, our world and our place in it. What, one might wonder, does the future have in store for us? Will we discover that our universe existed before the Big Bang or be able to 'swap' brains between different species? What is the future of happiness? In this dazzling collection, scientists at the very forefront of their fields, including Richard Dawkins, Lee Smolin, Sir Martin Rees and Ian Stewart, have been brought together...  Read More

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    John Brockman

    With a broad career spanning the fields of art, science, books, software and the Internet. In 1960 he established the bases for intermedia kinetic environments in art, theatre and commerce, while consulting for clients such as General Electric, Columbia Pictures, The Pentagon, The White House... In 1973 he formed his own literary and software agency. He is founder of the Edge Foundation and editor of Edge, a highly acclaimed website where the most outstanding thinkers, leaders of what he has termed Third Culture, analyse cutting-edge science.

    He is author and editor of several books, including: The Third Culture (1995); The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years (2000); The Next Fifty Years (2002) and The New Humanists (2003).

    He has the distinction of being the only person to have been profiled on Page One of the Science Times (1997) and the Arts & Leisure (1966), both supplements of The New York Times.

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