Dimensions
165 x 242 x 28mm
An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible.
'Profiles of the Future', a collection of essays by one of the world's most renowned writers of science and science fiction, originally appeared in 1962. The theme was one of ultimate possibilities, rather than achievements to be expected in the near future, and so even the remarkable events of the last thirty years have dated it very little.
Now Arthur Clarke has gone over his essays, which were written over a three-year period from 1959-1961, making corrections and comments where necessary in order to bring them right up to date, adding fascinating new afterwords to each chapter and discussing where he has been right or wrong in his predictions.
Amongst many fascinating excursions into what the future may hold, Arthur Clarke looks at the fourth dimension and the obsolescence of the law of gravity, and the exploration of the entire solar system and the colonisation of some of it: seas will be 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.
In his uniquely entertaining style, Arthur Clarke, writing with a light deft touch, explains that almost anything is possible in this improbable world in which we live.
