Speaker 1: Welcome to the WZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. As
Speaker 1: we enter a new year and a new quarter of
Speaker 1: a century begins fund to look back at predictions of
Speaker 1: twenty five years ago. A book that features predictions, some
Speaker 1: of them dead on, others rather vague, is called Predictions
Speaker 1: Thirty Great Minds in the Future, edited by Sean Griffiths
Speaker 1: of Oxford University Press, essays from academics in a variety
Speaker 1: of fields offered their take on what was to come.
Speaker 1: Some of it certainly appears to be technobabbel. That's what
Speaker 1: happens when you allow thirty thinkers, writers, scientists and academics
Speaker 1: to write down their thoughts. But there are some pretty
Speaker 1: smart people such as Stephen Pinker, the late economist, John
Speaker 1: Kenneth Galbraith commenting on women's issues, Andrea Dwark, and other
Speaker 1: interesting takes from novelist umberto Echo, anthropologist and paleontologist Stephen
Speaker 1: Jay Gould, linguist Noam Chomsky, and one of the world's
Speaker 1: great science fiction writers, Arthur C. Clark, who put a
Speaker 1: spin in the future that only a science fiction writer can.
Speaker 1: Predictions Thirty Great Minds in the Future from Oxford University Press.
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