Notes
Profiles of the Future, a discussion of the future development of technology by Arthur C. Clarke.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1964 Pan Books paperback edition, publisher's code XP54. Cover illustrator unknown.

Publisher's Blurb – Lower Cover
An enquiry into the limits of the possible.

Conquering time – overcoming gravity – canned dreams – communications across space – benevolent electronic brains.

The range of this enthralling book is immense: from the remaking of the human mind to the vast reaches of the universe. And the above are merely a few of the many exciting speculations on the future by its author – a scientist whose expert and wide knowledge is matched only by his brilliant imagination.

'Every age has one visionary who is more scientific in method and more accurate in his predictions than any other, In the 'nineties it was Jules Verne. In the 1920's, H.G. Wells. The modern equivalent of these is Arthur C. Clarke . . . This is a book nobody can afford to ignore'
-Evenong Standard

Arthur C. Clarke was born in 1917. He took a science degree at London University with first-class honours. He then worked for some years as assistant editor of a science magazine, at the same time acquiring a considerable reputation as a fiction writer. In 1951 he published his most famous work, THE EXPLORATION OF SPACE, which sold 400,000 copies and was translated into eight languages. He has twice been Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.