11 MARCH 1955, page 32

A Celestial Baedeker

Tun planets are worlds not altogether unlike our own, and the members of the British Interplanetary Society entertain the hope that in the not-so-distant future we shall be able......

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The Human Use of Human Beings, Norbert Weiner's study of 'cybernetics and society,' was originally published in 1950, and quickly became a work of almost scriptural influence in......