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Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Think of the human race multiplying 500-million fold, or evolving new, distinct species. Consider the technology of space colonization, computer-assisted reproduction, the Martian potato. One hundred years after H. G. 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 scientists point of view. 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. The stories he tellsabout Napoleonic versus Tolstoyan styles of doing science; the coming era of radioneurology and radiotelepathy; the works of writers from Aldous Huxley to Michael Crichton to William Blake; Samuel Gompers and the American labor movementcome from science, science fiction, and history. Sharing in the joy and gloom of these sources, D

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Author

Freeman J Dyson; Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim.; Harvard University. Press

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674539099

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Computer Science

Rating

4.2 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14