Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Science: 2123 A. D.
A new candidate for the world's championship in scientific prediction has arisen to challenge Mr. Herbert George Wells. He is J. B. S. Haldane, reader in biochemistry at Cambridge University, who in the August Century, lays bare to the dazed layman what you might expect If You Were Alive in 2123. The paper created a sensation when it was read at Cambridge. Haldane advances his theses only as personal deductions from present tendencies. His points:
1) The main effects of Einstein's relativity will be felt in philosophy and ethics by a reaction from dogmatic...
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