Imagined Worlds
Imagined Worlds Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Consider the technology of space colonization, computer-assisted…
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Imagined Worlds
Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Consider the technology of space colonization, computer-assisted reproduction, the "Martian potato." One hundred years after H. G. Think of the human race multiplying 500-million fold, or evolving new, distinct species.
In Imagined Worlds he brings this perspective to a speculative future to show us where science and technology, real and imagined, may be taking us. Wells visited the future in The Time Machine, Freeman Dyson marshals his uncommon gifts as a scientist and storyteller to take us once more to that ever-closer, ever-receding time to come.Since Disturbing the Universe, the book that first brought him international renown, Freeman Dyson has been helping us see ourselves and our world from a scientist's point of view. The stories he