Immanuel Velikovsky Worlds in Collision - "The Daring and Original Vision of Earth's History - The Great Scientist-Prophet's Revelations of Cosmic Drama", "A Towering Space Age Prophet", "The scientist who dared to explode established theories..."

Carl Sagan Broca's Brain (Chapter 7) "Venus and Dr Velikovsky", "Sagan...a scientist of impeccable credentials", "closely reasoned, impeccably researched...", "one of the world's leading scientists", "devastating, balanced, unforgettable." (And SI for Fall, 1980 "Ideas in Collision" by James Oberg cf Martin Gardner p390)

Velikovsky was a modern catastrophist, whose radical theories on the History of the Earth sold millions of copies of books in the late 1900s. Carl Sagan was a Professor at Cornell University and a Pulitzer Prize winning author of science books. Velikovsky's fantasies had virtually no impact at all on the scientfic community, but a lot of impact in the community outside science, where his ideas are still cited as the latest advances in science.

Egg Donor Pamphlet from NY State Dept of Health

Films in which science and civilization confront the future:

Metropolis Germany 1926 Directed by. Fritz Lang, One of the great classics of the silent film era. In a future society dominated by machines, a young man of the ruling class joins with oppressed workers as the evil science guys develop the ultimate machine - a robot to replace the workers. An amazing vision - have we eliminated the possibility that this could be our future?

Things to Come Britain 1936 Directed by W.C. Menzies. Another amazing film, not technically startling, but far ahead of its time in confronting a vision of a future: world-wide war destroys civilization, which is rescued from the brink of barbarism by a union of scientists and engineers who substitute reason for politics.... Fears, hopes or wishes about the future of the world - created less than 20 years after the end of WW I and just three years before the start of WW II.

Blade Runner 1982 Directed by Ridley Scott. Harrison Ford and Darryl Hannah. In a confusing and dark post apocalyptic world a giant corporation manufactures robots indistinguishable from humans. To what end?

Brazil 1985 Directed by Terry Gilliam. Another post-apocalyptic techno-world, stratified into castes that serve the state. Can an individual survive without being crushed?