Product Details
Free Press, November 1999
Trade Paperback, 448 pages
ISBN-10: 0684863006
ISBN-13: 9780684863009
Description
What wonders of science will the 21st century bring? John Maddox takes up this challenge by describing precisely what remains to be discovered. Building on twenty-three years' experience at the helm of the world's preeminent science magazine, Nature, Maddox identifies new areas of discovery in physics, biology, health, intelligence, and global catastrophe. As Maddox shows, the rate of scientific discovery will continue to accelerate, hurtling us toward ever more exciting discoveries in the next century.
Paul RaeburnThe New York Times Book Review[Maddox] was more than an observer of the scientific enterprise
-- he helped shape it. Maddox makes a persuasive case that science has far to go.
Michael PakenhamThe Baltimore SunMaddox has a craftsman's mastery for making histories of science succinct, authoritative, and delightfully readable.
Cral ZimmerNature[Maddox] has done an excellent job of showing just how many surprises we may have in store.
Jim HoltThe New YorkerStanding on the shoulders of the scientific giants whose work he has published, Maddox peers into the future and tries to describe the shape of advances to come.
Paul DotyJohn F. Kennedy School Of Government, Harvard UniversityWith stunning clarity, Maddox takes the reader through the laboratories where current discoveries join the next unconquered challenges in the realm of science. In doing so, he revalidates science as the endless frontier and lays out an engaging map of future discoveries.
