Dyson shows us where science and technology, real and imagined, may be taking us. The stories he tells-about "Napoleonic" versus "Tolstoyan" styles of doing science, the coming era of radioneurology and radiotelepathy, the works of writers from Aldous Huxley to Michael Crichton to William Blake-come from science, science fiction, and history.

One hundred years after H.G. Wells visited the future in "The Time Machine", Freeman Dyson marshals his uncommon gifts as a scientist and storyteller to take readers once more to that ever-closer, ever receding time to come. 27 halftones.