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Esther Dyson, Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age (New York: Broadway Books, 1997);;

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Timothy Ferris, The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997);;

Bill Gates, with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson, The Road Ahead (New York: Viking, 1995);;

James Gleick, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything (New York: Pantheon, 1999);;

Thomas Gold, The Deep Hot Biosphere (New York: Copernicus, 1999);;

Stephen Jay Gould...