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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the WZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. As

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<v Speaker 1>we enter a new year and a new quarter of

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<v Speaker 1>a century begins fund to look back at predictions of

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<v Speaker 1>twenty five years ago. A book that features predictions, some

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<v Speaker 1>of them dead on, others rather vague, is called Predictions

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<v Speaker 1>Thirty Great Minds in the Future, edited by Sean Griffiths

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<v Speaker 1>of Oxford University Press, essays from academics in a variety

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<v Speaker 1>of fields offered their take on what was to come.

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<v Speaker 1>Some of it certainly appears to be technobabbel. That's what

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<v Speaker 1>happens when you allow thirty thinkers, writers, scientists and academics

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<v Speaker 1>to write down their thoughts. But there are some pretty

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<v Speaker 1>smart people such as Stephen Pinker, the late economist, John

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<v Speaker 1>Kenneth Galbraith commenting on women's issues, Andrea Dwark, and other

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<v Speaker 1>interesting takes from novelist umberto Echo, anthropologist and paleontologist Stephen

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<v Speaker 1>Jay Gould, linguist Noam Chomsky, and one of the world's

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<v Speaker 1>great science fiction writers, Arthur C. Clark, who put a

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<v Speaker 1>spin in the future that only a science fiction writer can.

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<v Speaker 1>Predictions Thirty Great Minds in the Future from Oxford University Press.

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<v Speaker 1>The book Club WZ, Boston's news radio