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462 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
”Eventually society will come face-to-face with problems of such complexity that it will be beyond mankind’s power to solve them. And then so-called progress will stop.”
“Nonsense,” said Andrei. “Mankind doesn’t set itself problems that it can’t solve.”
“But I’m not talking about the problems that mankind sets itself,” Izya objected. “I’m talking about the problems mankind runs into. They just come up on their own. Mankind never set itself the problem of famine. It simply used to starve.”