Technology and Culture in Evolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3171471 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob Bronowski (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 270 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1578080 |
| OpenAlex | W1572573831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
There is no blueprint of the future: there is not even a modern bible of the future, of the kind that Karl Marx wrote-a compound of history and exhortation that might be read as a map to the promised land. Since the heyday of H. G. Wells, almost no one has written seriously about the future except the prophets of gloom, such as Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. Their books were made popular by their moralizing tone, but in fact they lack moral as well as scientific imagination: the tragic air about them derives from a complacent assurance that literary England in the first half of the century was the arbiter and expression of ethical wisdom forever. Meanwhile, the writers with a more inventive turn of mind have backed away into science fiction, where their timid and trivial adventures in whimsy do not aspire to genuine imagination and humanity, and so do not rank even as minor
Adventure · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Blueprint · Gloom · Humanity · Ivory tower · Literature · Minor (academic) · Political science · Sociology · Theology · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2023 (47) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |