Reflections

The twentieth century has been a restless one for our inquisitive species, with social and political turmoil interlocking vast revolutions in technology and science. From the universalist confidence of modern times through to the trendy malaise of postmodernity, the spiral of hope has seemed to invert and press downward, the doomsday clock on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists edging ever closer to, ever back from, the stroke of midnight...