Аннотация
Michael Crichton - Timeline
Michael Crichton
Timeline
Contents
INTRODUCTION
CORAZON
DORDOGNE
BLACK ROCK
CASTELGARD
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSBIBLIOGRAPHYFor Taylor
"All the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind."
WINSTON CHURCHILL, 1953"If you don't know history, you don't know anything."
EDWARD JOHNSTON, 1990"I'm not interested in the future. I'm interested in the future of the future."
ROBERT DONIGER, 1996INTRODUCTIONScience at the End of the
Century
A hundred years ago, as the nineteenth century drew to a close, scientists around the world were satisfied that they had arrived at an accurate picture of the physical world. As physicist Alastair Rae put it, "By the end of the nineteenth century it seemed that the basic fundamental principles governing the behavior of the physical universe were known."* Indeed, many scientists said that the study of physics was nearly compl...

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