Welcome to the WZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. As we enter a new year and a new quarter of a century begins fund to look back at predictions of twenty five years ago. A book that features predictions, some of them dead on, others rather vague, is called Predictions Thirty Great Minds in the Future, edited by Sean Griffiths of Oxford University Press, essays from academics in a variety of fields offered their take on what was to come.
Some of it certainly appears to be technobabbel. That's what happens when you allow thirty thinkers, writers, scientists and academics
to write down their thoughts. But there are some pretty smart people such as Stephen Pinker, the late economist, John Kenneth Galbraith commenting on women's issues, Andrea Dwark, and other interesting takes from novelist umberto Echo, anthropologist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, linguist Noam Chomsky, and one of the world's great science fiction writers, Arthur C. Clark, who put a spin in the future that only a science fiction writer can.
Predictions Thirty Great Minds in the Future from Oxford University Press. The book Club WZ, Boston's news radio