“How Science Saved the World: Has science driven history for the past 50,000 years?”

Title“How Science Saved the World: Has science driven history for the past 50,000 years?”
Year for Search2000
AuthorsRobinson, Kim Stanley(b. 1952)
Secondary TitleNature
Volume / Edition403.6765
Pagination23
Date PublishedJanuary 6, 2000
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

A review of a book that argues that the eutopia of the future depended on a subset of scientists devoted to human betterment after a massive plunge in population that resulted from the sorts of issues we face at present.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. as “Review: Science in the Third Millennium.” Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003), 199-201. 

Title Note

Rpt. as “Review: Science in the Third Millennium.”

Illustration

Illus. Jacey

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Author Note

(b. 1952)

Full Text

2000 Robinson, Kim Stanley. “How Science Saved the World: Has science driven history for the past 50,000 years?” Illus. Jacey.  Nature 403.6765 (January 6, 2000): 23. Rpt. as “Review: Science in the Third Millennium.” Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003), 199-201. PSt

A review of a book that argues that the eutopia of the future depended on a subset of scientists devoted to human betterment after a massive plunge in population that resulted from the sorts of issues we face at present.