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hieronymusbotched's review
Tough one to rate - an intellectual curiosity from 1929 that basically predates, predicts, and prophesies the tributaries of science and science fiction alike. As interesting for what it's right about as what is wrong.
Some predictions are so far flung they may not even be inaccurate - we just haven't caught up to the future.
-.5 for oddly specific Marxist sentiments at the end
3.5 cool cool cool
Some predictions are so far flung they may not even be inaccurate - we just haven't caught up to the future.
-.5 for oddly specific Marxist sentiments at the end
3.5 cool cool cool
neoludification's review
3.0
A little text on the future of human scientific development, from the perspective of a British Marxist scientist in the 1930s. The introduction by McKenzie Wark offers some helpful context. The chapter on "The Flesh" has aged extremely poorly. The remarks on the relationship between scientists and power, for the most part, have aged quite well.
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