A review by mnicholson
Daedalus by J.B.S. Haldane

4.0

Since this book was written about 90 years ago, it is at times hard to understand, but its sheer distance from the present makes Haldane's prophecies all the more interesting. My takeaway is that we are generally awful at predicting the future, but it's amazing how much science has progressed in ways that people could have never imagined, and it is heartening to think that it will continue to progress in the future. I think this is the takeaway he wanted people to have: science has not reached a limit. There are always more discoveries to be made, and scientific progress will have both positive and negative effects, hopefully with the positive outweighing the negative.