==== Summa Technologiae ====

<blockquote>The slogan of this work was "to catch up and outrun Nature". I even considered a subtitle "plagiarisms and creations"... Summa technologiae written in 1963 was not a novel, but a collection of diverse texts- not necessarily prophecies. The landscapes of the future enclosed in Summa can be compared to a guide for mountain climbing in the Alps. The author of the guide does not claim that every climber must reach all peaks - just as a person in a restaurant is not required to order all dishes. I did not write about what would happen but about what could happen, since I obviously had no influence on future development of technology.

--[[Stanislaw Lem]] </blockquote> 

  * [[wp>Summa_Technologiae]]
  * http://english.lem.pl/works/essays/summa-technologiae/107-lems-opinion
  * http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/ive-seen-gardens-compared-which-would-be-wilderness