@booklet {732, title = {The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul}, year = {1929}, note = {

The book was originally announced under the title \“Possibilities\” and published in the \“To-Day and To-Morrow\” series.\ 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

}, month = {1929}, publisher = {Kegan Paul \& Co}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The book is presented as speculative prediction that focuses on space travel, the physical modification of humans, and the psychological changes these will bring about (and the resistance to them based in human psychology), but the section on human modification includes a brief non-fictional eutopia in the Stapledonian mode. After a life of 60 to 120 years of living, people will be surgically modified and provided with mechanical extensions of their senses and re-educated. In addition, people will develop mental connections to others that will ultimately produce a group mind, and this entity will be essentially immortal.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Irish author, Male author}, author = {J[ohn] D[esmond] Bernal (1901-71)} }