Dreaming the Future by Clifford A. Pickover, Prometheus, $28, ISBN
157392895X
ONE of the great entertainments for sceptics is the yearly analysis of
popular psychics’ predictions prepared by science and medical writer Gene Emery.
All the media attention these guys get doesn’t make their pronouncements any
more true.
Clifford Pickover’s new study of divination throughout the ages doesn’t go
for such easy pickings as that. He doesn’t indulge in comparing failure
rates.
Instead what Pickover has done in Dreaming the Future is to chart the
many ways we have tried to deal with our insecurity about the future. Here
you’ll…
