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2 avril 2021
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paskins, « A Tale of Chemical Futures », Materials and Time, ID : 10670/1.e53uwl
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In 2016, the Royal Society of Chemistry commissioned two science fiction writers to imagine possible chemical futures. These fictions were part of a more general review about the place of chemistry in Britain, and occurred against a background of nervousness about cuts to the research budget. In one of them, published in the Society's online magazine Chemistry World, John Gilbey "imagines a future without chemistry as we know it." Gilbey extrapolates from changes in the prominence given to th...