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A fascinating look at the future, as you''ve never seen it.
Ten years from now, will we have a tiny personal computer surgically inserted in an earlobe, capable of connecting to phone lines and the internet? Fifty years from now, will atomic-sized robots replace surgeons? A hundred years from now, instead of taking the bus, will we simply teleport to work? It all may sound like impossible science fiction, but not too long ago, so did walking on the moon. Journalist Jonathan Margolis interviews leading thinkers in such fields as genetics, medicine, neurobiology, quantum physics, robotics, computer science, and space travel to explore where we''re going, and what it will look like when - and if - we get there.
Beginning with famously flawed past visions of the future - among them H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates - Margolis examines many of the strange and tempting futures that may lie in store for us. Politics, society, religion, and work are all destined for great changes. What might they be? How will they come about? Thought-provoking, amusing, and absolutely original, A Brief History of Tomorrow is a deliciously compelling look at something we all spend a lot of time contemplating: the future.
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Jonathan Margolis''s biography of Uri Geller, the controversial spoon-bending and mind-reading performer, was the first to examine dispassionately whether the former Israeli paratrooper is a talented magician or something altogether more mysterious – perhaps even an authentic paranormalist.
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"Superstitious atheists will find this book toxic. Jonathan Margolis clearly spooked himself writing it and I got an attack of the creeps one night just reading it." - Evening Standard
"Uri''s ability to perform amazing feats of mental wizardry is known the world over...Uri is not a magician. He is using capabilities that we all have and can develop with exercise and practice." - Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut and sixth man to walk on the moon
"I think Uri is a magician, but I don''t particularly believe that he is using trickery. I believe there are psychic abilities. They don''t accord with any science we have at the moment, but maybe some future science will back them up with theories." - Brian Josephson, Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1973
"Uri bent a spoon for me. The first time he did, I thought there must be a trick. The second time I was stunned - completely, completely stunned and amazed. It just bent in my hand. I''ve never seen anything like it. It takes a lot to impress me. Uri Geller is for real and anyone who doesn''t recognise that is either deluding himself, or he is a very sad person." - David Blaine
"Geller has bent my ring in the palm of my hand without ever touching it. Personally, I have no scientific explanation for the phenomenon." - Werner Von Braun
"I came to this book a rationalist and a skeptic. Yet, open-mindedness requires me to report that Jonathan Margolis'' carefully researched, scrupulously detailed and even-handed exploration of Uri Geller''s paranormal capacities suggests some of our current scientific understandings will need radical revision in the next century." - The Jewish Chronicle
"A brilliant book - nine out of ten." - Channel 4
"A fascinating, unaided, open-minded account of a great modern puzzle." - Mail on Sunday
"An even-handed and assiduously researched work... something close to a definitive assessment." - New Statesman
