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Back to the future: two books that tried to predict how science would evolve

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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