Paths to unforeseeable science and technology
Vol. 409, No. 6818 (18 January 2001).
|PDF(80K)|

Cover illustration (Image courtesy of Jacey)

Science's unpredictability has not prevented a group of invited scientists from being farsighted about future possibilities in fundamental research and its applications. Anticipation is one thing, vision quite another. Geneticists and others are relishing the prospect of the maps and inventories that are to come, and the inevitable insights into organismal development and function, relationships between species and between kingdoms, and the evolutionary past. But where's the new vision? And what sorts of visions are driving other parts of biology and other sciences towards new discoveries and technologies?

Synthesizing life JACK W. SZOSTAK, DAVID P. BARTEL & P. LUIGI LUISI |Summary|Full text|PDF(1302K)|	387
Modelling cellular behaviour DREW ENDY AND ROGER BRENT |Summary|Full text|PDF(413K)|	391
Pasteur's Quadrant and malnutrition GEORGE L. BLACKBURN |Summary|Full text|PDF(328K)|	397
Actions from thoughts MIGUEL A. L. NICOLELIS |Summary|Full text|PDF(407K)|	403
The relationship between matter and life RODNEY BROOKS |Full text|PDF(108K)|	409
Life's lessons in design PHILIP BALL |Summary|Full text|PDF(469K)|	413
Earth systems engineering and management STEPHEN H. SCHNEIDER |Summary|Full text|PDF(376K)|	417
Geoengineering DAVID W. KEITH |Full text|PDF(189K)|	420
Interfering for the good of a chemical reaction STUART A. RICE |Summary|Full text|PDF(233K)|	422
Future optical and infrared telescopes ROGER ANGEL |Summary|Full text|PDF(266K)|	427
New physics with the Compact Linear Collider JOHN ELLIS AND IAN WILSON |Summary|Full text|PDF(467K)|	431