Profiles of the Future

An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

By: Arthur C. Clarke

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Paperback | 1 June 2001 | Edition Number 1

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This book originally appeared in 1962, and was based on essays written during the period 1959 - 1961. Since it was concerned with ultimate possibilities, and not with achievements to be expected in the near future, even the remarkable events of the last decade have dated it very little. But Arthur Clarke has gone over the book making corrections and comments where necessary in order to bring it right up-to-date. The author, amongst many fascinating excursions into what the future may hold, discusses the fourth dimension and the obsolescence of the law of gravity, the exploration of the entire solar system and the colonisation of some of it; seas will mined for energy and minerals, and asteroids will be pulled to Earth to supply needed materials; men, already bigger than they need be, may be bred smaller to be more efficient on less food.

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Clarke here revisits some prophetic essays he wrote between 1959-61, commenting on what he foresaw and where he was wrong. It makes fascinating reading to see how prescient he was. Where he erred it was because he was not fantastical enough. He anticipated human cloning, nuclear technology and the triumph of capitalism. His additions to these essays for the next 50 years are equally astounding. (Kirkus UK)

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