Back to the future: two books that tried to predict how science would evolve
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Authors in the 1920s and 1970s had different takes on how science would shape the future. Nature ’s reviewers had similarly diverse views on how accurate these predictions would be.
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Nature 633 , 293 (2024)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02669-y
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