LITERARY agent assembles a stellar cast of intellectuals each year to answer a boundary-pushing question. His latest poser – – has drawn a stunning array of responses, from nuclear terrorism to in-vitro meat.
Some ideas are predictable (immortality, intelligent robots, designer children), some world-saving if they happened (oil we can grow) and some we’d be better off without (). Many are self-indulgent technological fantasies. With contributions from Ian McEwan, Steven Pinker, Lee Smolin, Craig Venter, Richard Dawkins and 130 others of their ilk, the book…
