The Next Fifty Years by John Brockman, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.99, ISBN 0297829254 Reviewed by Michael Brooks
IT’S a simple enough premise, but it works. What’s going to happen, scientifically speaking, in the next fifty years? Science writing’s Svengali John Brockman put this intriguing question to some luminaries, and their responses make an entertaining, intelligent book. Some of it is not surprising, Richard Dawkins fears there will still be theologians in 2050. But there are eyebrow-raisers. Would you have expected the British Astronomer Royal to announce that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence should top the cosmological research agenda?
