- Science, Forecasting, Science, social aspects, Twenty-first century
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Cool, contemporary, spare and grave.
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- John Brockman
- First published
- May 14, 2002
- Pages
- 311
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Tandem Library, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781417709427
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First sentence
“WE ARE ASKED TO PREDICT the state of our science fifty years from today.”
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