Can we predict the future? Look up H. G. Wells’s The First Men in the Moon,
available electronically from the Gutenberg Project on
http://www.promo.net/pg/_titles/_A_index.html, if you need a reminder that our
imaginations can shape the real thing. And Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is
getting uncomfortably close. Cloning is coming along by leaps and bounds, and
his happy drug Soma looks a bit close to Ectasy—so how long before visits
to heritage parks of “savages” make it onto the tourist trail?
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