Past, Present, and Future is a non-fiction book by Isaac Asimov. The collection of science essays was first published by Prometheus Books in 1987.
Contents[]
- Past
- Unity
- The Scientist as Unbeliever
- The Choking Grip
- Human Mutations
- The Hollow Earth
- Poison!
- Competition!
- Benjamin Franklin Changes the World
- Fifty Years of Astronomy
- The Myth of the Machine
- Present
- The Perennial Fringe
- The Case Against 'Star Wars'
- Short Term; Long Term
- The Useful Ivory Tower
- Do It First!
- Popularizing Science
- The Pace of Research
- The Brain
- Darwin and Natural Selection
- Cool Light
- Halley's Comet—Destination Space
- Ice in Orbit
- Looking for Our Neighbors
- Life Is Wherever It Lands
- Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- What Is the Universe Made of?
- Science and Science Fiction
- The Dark Vision
- The Lure of Horror
- Movie Science
- Book into Movie
- My Hollywood Non-Career
- I Love New York
- The Immortal Sherlock Holmes
- Gilbert & Sullivan
- Mensa and I
- Write, Write, Write
- Facing Up to It
- Triple Bypass
- Future
- The Elevator Effect
- 2084
- Society in the Future
- Feminism for Survival
- TV and the Race with Doom
- The Next Seventy Years in the Courts
- The Future of Costume
- The Immortal Word
- Liberty in the Next Century
- The Villain in the Atmosphere
- The New Learning
- Technology, You, Your Family, and the Future
- Should We Fear the Future?
- Should We Fear the Computer?
- Work Changes Its Meaning
- Nuclear Dreams and Nightmares
- The New Tools in Space
- Living on the Moon, Part I
- Living on the Moon, Part II
- The Skies of Luna
- The Solar System for Humanity
- The Clinical Lab of the Future
- The Hospital of the Future
- Medicine from Space
- Revising the Pattern
- Putting Bacteria to Work
- Fiddling with Genes
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