Past, present, and future / Isaac Asimov.
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Buffalo, N.Y. :
Prometheus Books,
©1987.
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Table of Contents:
- Past: Unity
- The scientist as unbeliever
- The choking grip
- Human mutations
- The hollow earth
- Poison!
- Competition!
- Benjamin Franklin changes the world
- Fifty years of astronomy
- The myth of the machine.
- Present: The perennial fringe
- The case against 'Star Wars'
- Short term; long term
- The useful ivory tower
- Do it first!
- Popularizing science
- The pace of research
- The brain
- Darwin and natural selection
- Cool light
- Halley's Comet
- destination space
- Ice in orbit
- Looking for our neighbors
- Life is wherever it lands
- Einstein's theory of relativity
- What is the universe made of?
- Science and science fiction
- The dark vision
- The lure of horror
- Movie science
- Book into movie
- My hollywood non-career
- I love New York
- The immortal Sherlock Holmes
- Gilbert & Sullivan
- Mensa and I
- Write, write, write
- Facing up to it
- Triple bypass.
- Future: The elevator effect
- 2084
- Society in the future
- Feminism for survival
- TV and the race with doom
- The next seventy years in the courts
- The future of costume
- The immortal word
- Liberty in the next century
- The villian in the atmosphere
- The new learning
- Technology, you, your family, and the future
- Should we fear the future?
- Should we fear the computer?
- Work changes its meaning
- Nuclear dreams and nightmares
- The new tools in space
- Living on the moon, parts I and II
- The skies of luna
- The solar system for humanity
- The clinical lab of the future
- The hospital of the future
- Medicine from space
- Revising the pattern
- Putting bacteria to work
- Fiddling with genes.