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Bicycling to Utopia : essays on science and technology
- Title
- Bicycling to Utopia : essays on science and technology / edited by P. Day and C.R.A. Catlow.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press [for] The Royal Institution, 1995.
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- Description
- vi, 169 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- Most scientists have read one or more Utopian novels. The best known - Brave New World, The Shape of Things to Come, and even Planet of the Apes - have biological themes. They tell of a day when the human race will undergo genetic disaster because of the machinations of scientists. In Bicycling to Utopia, award-winning scientist Steve Jones looks at the future of human evolution from the perspective of current developments in human genetics.
- Together with other essays by experts in their fields, this volume of selected Evening Discourses from the Royal Institution offers an authoritative and accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science and technology.
- Alternative Title
- Essays on science and technology
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- National Week of Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET[superscript 7]) / William Waldegrave -- Bicycling to Utopia / Steve Jones -- Simple brains - simple minds? / Michael O'Shea -- Dead or alive: two concepts of rock behaviour / Tim Harper -- Materials in the fast lane / D. T. Clark -- Hello sunshine / Mary Archer -- Are plants intelligent? / Malcolm B. Wilkins -- Artificial hearts: from technology to science / Iwao Fujimasa -- Is high technology medicine cost-effective? / Alan Maynard.
- ISBN
- 0198558953
- OCLC
- 33980265
- ocm33980265
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries