Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible - Couverture souple

Clarke, Arthur C.

 
9780575402775: Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0575402776 ISBN 13 : 9780575402775
Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2000

Synopsis

This book originally appeared in 1962, and was based on essays written during the period 1959 - 1961. Since it was concerned with ultimate possibilities, and not with achievements to be expected in the near future, even the remarkable events of the last decade have dated it very little. But Arthur Clarke has gone over the book making corrections and comments where necessary in order to bring it right up-to-date. The author, amongst many fascinating excursions into what the future may hold, discusses the fourth dimension and the obsolescence of the law of gravity, the exploration of the entire solar system and the colonisation of some of it; seas will mined for energy and minerals, and asteroids will be pulled to Earth to supply needed materials; men, already bigger than they need be, may be bred smaller to be more efficient on less food.

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À propos de l?auteur

Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as a radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the war, he entered King's college, London taking, in 1948, his Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours.One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he has won Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers' Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, 'The Sentinel'. He has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956.

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Éditeur
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0575402776
ISBN 13 
9780575402775
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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