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" On the past, present & future : "
Isaac Asimov.
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BL
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1014969
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b769339
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| Main Entry
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Asimov, Isaac,1920-1992.
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On the past, present future : : 66 essays /\ Isaac Asimov.
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New York :: Barnes & Noble Books,, 1992, ©1987.
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viii, 374 pages ;; 24 cm
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0880299398
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: 9780880299398
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| Contents
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Cont. 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.
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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.
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Civilization, Modern-- 20th century.
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Science and civilization.
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Science-- Forecasting.
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Science-- Social aspects.
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Social change.
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Twenty-first century, Forecasts.
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Civilization, Modern.
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Science and civilization.
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Science-- Forecasting.
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Science-- Social aspects.
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Social change.
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Twenty-first century.
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081
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PS3551.S5O7x 1992
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On the past, present and future
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