Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan

Broca's Brain by Carl SaganCarl Sagan, writer & scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down to earth style, he explores & explains a mind boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life & its consquences, & other provocative, fascinating quandries of the future we want to see today.

Like Chicken Little and the sky falling

after the ten-year-long Trojan War and the fall of the city of Troy

including solar cells and new kinds of farming to feed a growing population

hypocrites and hell-raisers—all propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives fore

Cardiac surgery is not for the faint of heart

is wise and a source of inspiration

of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door

desire – for men and women – and the exhilaration of swimming

lonely and introverted Fuyuko lives alone and fills her days with her job as a freelance proofreader

After spending three and half years with his Master

Through a series of conversations with her brother

and it has changed the lives of millions