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384 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
”Eventually society will come face-to-face with problems of such complexity that it will be beyond mankind’s power to solve them. And then so-called progress will stop.�
“Nonsense,� said Andrei. “Mankind doesn’t set itself problems that it can’t solve.�
“But I’m not talking about the problems that mankind sets itself,� Izya objected. “I’m talking about the problems mankind runs into. They just come up on their own. Mankind never set itself the problem of famine. It simply used to starve.�