Ahead of Time

Overview:

  • Title: Ahead of Time
  • Author: Harry Harrison, Theodore J. Gordon
  • Year: 1972
  • Publisher: Doubleday
  • Price: $4.95
  • Pages: xii+201
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: Ahead of Time
  • Notes: "First edition so stated on copyright page." - Currey As per {{OCLC|240729}}, this non-fiction volume collects the following 14 essays by scientists about the future of science and technology:
    • The conquest of senescence, by R. W. Prehoda.
    • People freezing: the establishment thaws, by R. C. W. Ettinger.
    • What are tachyons, and what could we do with them? By G. Feinberg.
    • Inside-out worlds, by D. M. Cole and D. W. Cox.
    • Requirements for communications to a naive recipient, by A. G. Wilson and T. J. Gordon.
    • Search for artificial stellar sources of infrared radiation, by F. J. Dyson.
    • Psychology in the year 2000, by G. Murphy.
    • Do plants feel emotions? by T. Bacon and R. Kirkpatrick.
    • Anomalous prediction of quantum processes by some human subjects, by H. Schmidt.
    • Long delayed echoes of radio transmissions, by O. G. Villard, Jr., C. R. Graf, and J. M. Lomasney.
    • The life and death of Project Camelot, by I. L. Horowitz.
    • The jousting at Camelot -- or social technology encounters the shield of the social structure, by T. R. Vallance.
    • Ovshinsky: promoter or persecuted genius? By P. M. Boffey.
    • The strange case of polywater, by M. Sinclair.