01100cam a2200217 i 4500 beginningend0000asim CaSfIA 20250721030458.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 770617s1977 nyu o 00010 eng 76052218 //r97 0385130880 : $8.50 (OCoLC)1193376128 DLC DLC DLC CaSfIA Q113 .A83 508 Asimov, Isaac, 1920- The beginning and the end / Isaac Asimov. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1977. 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) The past: The real Cyrano. Of what use? The democracy of learning. The monsters we have lived with. The fossil fuels. A drop of water.--The present: Smart, but not smart enough? Recipe for an ocean. Technology and energy. The glorious sun. Astronomy. The large satellites of Jupiter. The natural satellites. Of life beyond. The beginning and the end. Gravitation, unlimited. Man and computer.--The future: The big weather change. Tighten your belt. America-A.D. 2176. The coming decades in space. Colonizing the heavens. The moon as threshold. Science. https://archive.org/details/beginningend0000asim Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4905251M Additional information and access via Open Library beginningend0000asim ark:/13960/t8bh1s893