A History of the Future Prophets of Progress from H G Wells to Isaac Asimov 1st edition by Peter Bowler 1316602621 9781316602621

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ISBN-10 :  1316602621 

ISBN-13 : 9781316602621

Author:  Peter J. Bowler 

In this wide-ranging survey, Peter J. Bowler explores the phenomenon of futurology: predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology on society and culture in the twentieth century. Utilising science fiction, popular science literature and the novels of the literary elite, Bowler highlights contested responses to the potential for revolutionary social change brought about by real and imagined scientific innovations. Charting the effect of social and military developments on attitudes towards innovation in Europe and America, Bowler shows how conflict between the enthusiasm of technocrats and the pessimism of their critics was presented to the public in books, magazines and exhibitions, and on the radio and television. A series of case studies reveals the impact of technologies such as radio, aviation, space exploration and genetics, exploring rivalries between innovators and the often unexpected outcome of their efforts to produce mechanisms and machines that could change the world.

A History of the Future Prophets of Progress from H G Wells to Isaac Asimov 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
Science Fact and Science Fiction
Two Cultures?
Historians and the Idea of Progress
Getting It Right?
2 The Prophets
The Shape of Things to Come
Literary Dystopias
The Future War Novels
The Rise of Science Fiction
Popularizing Scientific Progress
Expert Visions of the Future
The Post-War World
3 How We’ll Live
Drudgery or Unlimited Leisure?
Electrifying the Ideal Home
A Synthetic World
What We’ll Eat
Women’s Work?
4 Where We’ll Live
Building for the Future
The Rise and Fall of Megalopolis
From Suburbia to the Garden City
The Streamlined City
5 Communicating and Computing
Moving Pictures
Radio Wonders
Broadcasting
Television
Computers
6 Getting Around
Motoring
Moving Ways
Rescuing the Railways
Monorails
Tunnels
Shipping
7 Taking to the Air
The Visionaries
Girdling the Earth
Flying Boats or Airships?
The Anti-Aviation Lobby
Personal Flying
The Jet Age
8 Journey into Space
The Rocket Pioneers
Space Operas
The Race to the Moon
9 War
Mechanized Warfare
The Demise of the Battleship
The Threat of the Bomber
Gas and Germs
Death Rays
The Atomic Bomb
10 Energy and Environment
The Crisis of Resources
The Search for Renewable Energy
Nuclear Power
Changing the World
Controlling Life
The Science of Balance?
11 Human Nature
The Conquest of Disease
The Elixir of Life
The Decline of the Family
All in the Mind
Breeding
12 Epilogue
Notes
1 Introduction
2 The Prophets
3 How We’ll Live
4 Where We’ll Live
5 Communicating and Computing
6 Getting Around
7 Taking to the Air
8 Journey into Space
9 War
10 Energy and Environment
11 Human Nature
12 Epilogue

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