| | Amazon.com: 2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future (Touchstone Books (Paperback)): Books: Gerard O'Neill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
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 | | The tone of the book is consistently optimistic without getting dreamy-eyed, which makes it all the more remarkable for having being published during a period where futurism was largely dominated by Malthusian doomsayers. |
 | | Indeed, "2081" could be seen as a testimony of faith in the future of mankind, and is a fine legacy for the Nobel Prize-winning physicist. |
| www.amazon.com /2081-Hopeful-Future-Touchstone-Paperback/dp/0671447513 (808 words) |