2 avril 2021
paskins, « A Tale of Chemical Futures », Materials and Time, ID : 10670/1.e53uwl
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...