Abstract
THESE three books have two things in common. All of them attempt to link the present with the immediate past or the immediate future, by way either of historical summary or extra-polative prediction. All of them, almost inevitably, are largely devoted to considering scientific or technological development; to call this development progress would be to beg the question raised continually by two of them.
(1) A Hundred Years of Medicine
By Wyndham E. B. Lloyd. (The Hundred Years Series.) Pp. 344. (London: Gerald Duckworth and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 15s. net.
(2) The Next Hundred Years:
the Unfinished Business of Science. By Prof. C. C. Furnas. Pp. xx + 366. (London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 8s. 6d. net.
(3) A Short History of the Future
By John Langdon-Davies. Pp. xxi + 272. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1936.) 10s. 6d. net.
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BACHARACH, A. (1) A Hundred Years of Medicine (2) The Next Hundred Years: (3) A Short History of the Future. Nature 139, 129–131 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139129a0
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