Monday, 20 May 2013

A brilliant trip back to the technological future

Continue reading page |1 | 2 Stanislaw Lem's forgotten masterwork Summa Technologiae, now in English half a century after publication, is a heady mix of prescience, philosophy and irony Book information Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem, translated by Joanna Zylinska Published by: University of Minnesota Press Price: $34.95 Lem concluded we should abandon analysis for creative activity (Image: Aleksander Jalosinski/Forum/Reuters/Corbis) WHEN Germany occupied Poland during the second world war, a young Pole was scratching a living under false papers as a car mechanic.
crawled from : Newscientist

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