"First edition so stated on copyright page." - Currey
As per {{OCLC|240729}}, this non-fiction volume collects the following 14 essays by scientists about the future of science and technology:
- The conquest of senescence, by R. W. Prehoda.
- People freezing: the establishment thaws, by R. C. W. Ettinger.
- What are tachyons, and what could we do with them? By G. Feinberg.
- Inside-out worlds, by D. M. Cole and D. W. Cox.
- Requirements for communications to a naive recipient, by A. G. Wilson and T. J. Gordon.
- Search for artificial stellar sources of infrared radiation, by F. J. Dyson.
- Psychology in the year 2000, by G. Murphy.
- Do plants feel emotions? by T. Bacon and R. Kirkpatrick.
- Anomalous prediction of quantum processes by some human subjects, by H. Schmidt.
- Long delayed echoes of radio transmissions, by O. G. Villard, Jr., C. R. Graf, and J. M. Lomasney.
- The life and death of Project Camelot, by I. L. Horowitz.
- The jousting at Camelot -- or social technology encounters the shield of the social structure, by T. R. Vallance.
- Ovshinsky: promoter or persecuted genius? By P. M. Boffey.
- The strange case of polywater, by M. Sinclair.
