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Last week that rock--dubbed ALH84001--landed on the front pages of newspapers around the world and seized the imagination of all mankind. At a televised press conference in Washington, a team of NASA and university researchers revealed that this well-traveled, 4.2-lb. stone--about the size of a large Idaho potato--had brought with it the first tangible evidence that we are not alone in the universe. Tucked deep within the rock are what appear to be the chemical and fossil remains of microscopic organisms that lived on Mars 3.6 billion years...
...Glass, has just been published in the U.S. by Morrow (365 pages; $26). The view here is that the quartet is indeed a marvel, but especially in its third and fourth volumes an exceedingly slow-moving and discursive marvel. The turbulent and bitterly angry first book, This Earth of Mankind, is the key to the rest, and though it is customary to say of concluding novels that they can be read independently, this is emphatically not true of the Buru Quartet, whose first three volumes, including Child of All Nations and Footsteps, have just been republished in paperback by Penguin...
...Tofflers who brought futurism to the masses. Future Shock made the new profession cool. The book and its best-selling sequels, The Third Wave (1984) and Powershift (1990), examined not just tomorrow but today, not just one industry but all mankind, making the paradigm-shattering argument that what was really changing society was the radical acceleration of change itself. Future shock, the Tofflers said, is what happens when change occurs faster than people's ability to adapt to it. The book resonated for the 1960s counterculture, and in some ways it echoes even louder in the digital era. "People today...
...book is a haunting and lyrical triumph, one of the few cyberpunk-influenced novels to weave a believable and emotionally involving vision of mankind's cultural and technological future from the reality of the vast Net already developing around us. That's all one can reasonably ask of science fiction: show us new worlds and make us believe our descendants might live there someday...
...Their achievements will have contributed significantly to mankind's scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment; and, perhaps most importantly, they must be people who have been sincerely motivated to improve the human condition," Inamori continued...