author : Sian Griffiths

Contents

• Jonathan Weiner.

Introduction to Predictions

• Chinua Achebe.

The Colour Line

• French Anderson.

Gene Therapies

• Noam Chomsky.

Language Design

• Arthur C. Clarke.

2099 . . . The Beginning of History

• Paul C. W. Davies.

Three 'Origin' Mysteries

• Richard Dawkins.

A Riddle I Long to Answer . . .

• Daniel C. Dennett.

Protecting Public Health

• Carl Djerassi.

The Century of A. R. T.

• Andrea Dworkin.

A New Jerusalem for Women

• Umberto Eco.

Never Fall in Love with Your Own Airship

• Francis Fukuyama.

The Politics of Women

• J. K. Galbraith.

Penalise the Bankers, Not the Workers

• Daniel Goleman.

Winning the Battle for the Human Heart

• Stephen Jay Gould.

Unpredictable Patterns

• Susan Greenfield.

George Orwell's 1984 . . . in 2084

• Lynn Margulis.

Proof Positive for Wet Mergers in the Eternal Takeover

• Donald A. Norman.

Cognitive Prostheses

• Paul Nurse.

Complex Cancers, Simple Cells

• Steven Pinker.

Increasing Consilience

• Sherwood Rowland.

Sequestration

• Amartya Sen.

Things to Come

• Elaine Showalter.

Optimism v. Pessimism

• Peter Singer.

A New Ethics

• Dale Spender.

A Basic Human Right

• Chris Stringer.

Fossils for the Future

• Sherry Turkle.

Toys to Change Our Minds

• Kevin Warwick.

Mind Machines

• James D. Watson.

Re-Directing the Course of Human Evolution

• Steven Weinberg.

A Theory of Everything

• Slavoj Zizek.

Closing the Gap