Science Futures

This is the winter of our discontent. A winter when oil, uranium and most of the fossil fuels in the world finally ran out and no one was actually ready. The long, cold winter of 2079. You may wonder if this is far fetched, if I am exaggerating. But at the end of 2005 a gas shortage occured in Siberia that killed many people. It can happen.

"How did we do so well?" "This is the joke party, Tommy. Politics is a joke. The joke party won."

"I've received a videomail from the manager of Air India," said Clive. "It's about my proposals for a solar powered aircraft which can land in snow...

What do we mean when we say a computer is intelligent? This author (see website at bottom of page) is correct in his understanding of ANI -...

Michael had seen an advert on the Jobcentre website for a training course entitled Living and Working in London. Topics covered: 1 - Working for...

A group of about twenty demonstrators had arrived outside a building site somewhere near the M25. One of them carried a sign that said, "Save our...

"This year we're having a school trip to Spain," said Mr. Pankhurst, the headmaster of Simon and Emily's school. A strange looking aircraft appeared...

I had just moved into some new flats on a council estate. I was concerned about one of my neighbours. She was a woman in her 20s who was called...

It was half past eight in the morning. I pressed the switch on the wall to turn off the air bed and floated gently to the floor. I put on my watch...

The family sat down, with their friends, at a table for 6 in a restaurant. The lights went out. Chris' girlfriend Maria took a handlamp out of her...

Chris was standing in the magistrate's court once again. He had come to give evidence in defence of James Johnson. The female magistrate wore a...

Chris stood in front of the judge in the crown court. The judge was a middle aged man with a moustache and a beard. He was wearing his red gown and...

Michael Smith sat in the office of the private psychiatrist his friend had recommended him. "Can you bring people off the police tranquillisers? I...