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- Publisher: Oxford University Press (1998)
- ASIN: B004K2ULM6
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THREE CENTURIES AGO, Isaac Newton wrote: "...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Read the first page
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THREE CENTURIES AGO, Isaac Newton wrote: "...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Read the first page
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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A fascinating book, which gets better the futher away from the present it goes. Unfortunately being writen around 5 years ago some of the modern predictions seem dated. Still worth a read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The last review from 2005 said that the book is interesting but had become dated and now 3 years later this is even more true.
The book was written 10 years ago with the optimism of the genome, computer and quantum revolutions. A lot has happened since then. From the quantum revolutions all of the space projects have been abandoned. From the biological revolutions cancer has proved to be much more complex and the genome has less genes than we expected but nevertheless is more reluctant to yield its secrets. In computing we have done better than expected even without the quantum computer or optical computers.
So now it is a book that is more interesting for those looking at the history and philosophy of science. It shows how a scientist makes predictions and hypothesizes about the future only to find the future rarely unfolds as expected.
The book was written 10 years ago with the optimism of the genome, computer and quantum revolutions. A lot has happened since then. From the quantum revolutions all of the space projects have been abandoned. From the biological revolutions cancer has proved to be much more complex and the genome has less genes than we expected but nevertheless is more reluctant to yield its secrets. In computing we have done better than expected even without the quantum computer or optical computers.
So now it is a book that is more interesting for those looking at the history and philosophy of science. It shows how a scientist makes predictions and hypothesizes about the future only to find the future rarely unfolds as expected.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is certainly a recommended book to read. It is appealing and gives a very broad perspective of the advances in the main pillars of modern science. The author was in a very privileged situation (as explained by himself) which gives him the necessary background to produce such a handful of predictions of how technology will probably change our lives in the next 100 years. However, we have an uncomfortable feeling about these predictions, since some of them are really fantastic and are close to what we imagine as science fiction in some cases. These predictions also show some potential threats to things such as individual freedom. This is an issue only slightly touched by this book, which tries to give a very optimistic vision of the future, of which I am not so sure about. Anyway, this should not stop the advances in science and the best way of preserving our freedom is to keep being informed about these subjects.
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