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1) AUTHOR: Gabor, Dennis, 1900-
1.1) Gabor, Dennis, BEYOND THE AGE OF WASTE : 2d ed. (Oxford ; 1981.)
LOCATION: HC59.G2313 1981: Engineering;
1.3) Gabor, Dennis, 1900- INVENTING THE FUTURE, (A.A. Knopf, 1964.)
LOCATION: CB427.G26: Meyer;
1.5) Gabor, Dennis, 1900- INNOVATIONS (Oxford Univ. Press, 1970.)
LOCATION: T212.G3: Meyer;
1.6) Gabor, Dennis, 1900- THE MATURE SOCIETY, (F.A. Praeger, 1972.)
LOCATION: HN17.5.G3: Meyer;
2.1) Gabor, Dennis. INVENTING EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE (Los Angeles : [1965?])
LOCATION: LC191.G3 1965: Education;
2.2) Gabor, Dennis. THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE (Los Angeles : 1972.)
LOCATION: CB427.G3: Green Stacks;
There is no hard-and-fast line between inventions and improvements.
In fact, the list below consists almost entirely of improvements,
not first fulfilments of archetypal wishes such as the first telephone
or the first flying machine was. This is due not mrerly to the lack
of imagination of the author and his sources, but mainly to the
exhaustion of primitive desires by past inventions. There remain
some primitive wishes such as ESP (Extra-sensory perception, for
direct communication from mind to mind), telekinetics (moving objects
by wishing), the time machine, antigravitics, and super-photonic
speed (breaking through the light velocity barrier), but on all
present evidence these will remain science fiction --- until
even SF becomes tired of them. - Denis Gabor in "Innovations", p. 12.