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In this visionary look into the future, Freeman Dyson argues that technological changes fundamentally alter our ethical and social arrangements and that three rapidly advancing new technologies--solar energy, genetic engineering, and world-wide communication--together have the potential to create a more equal distribution of the world's wealth.

Dyson begins by rejecting the idea that scientific revolutions are primarily concept driven. He shows rather that new tools are more often the sparks that ignite scientific discovery. Such tool-driven revolutions have profound social consequences--the invention of the telescope turning the Medieval world view upside down, the widespread use of household appliances in the 1950s replacing servants, to cite just two examples. In looking ahead, Dyson suggests that solar energy, genetics, and the Internet will have similarly transformative effects, with the potential to produce a more just and equitable society. Solar power could bring electricity to even the poorest, most remote areas of third world nations, allowing everyone access to the vast stores of information on the Internet and effectively ending the cultural isolation of the poorest countries. Similarly, breakthroughs in genetics may well enable us to give our children healthier lives and grow more efficient crops, thus restoring the economic and human vitality of village cultures devalued and dislocated by the global market.

Written with passionate conviction about the ethical uses of science, The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet is both a brilliant reinterpretation of the scientific process and a challenge to use new technologies to close, rather than widen, the gap between rich and poor.

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The Sun The Genome and The Internet Tools of Scientific Revolutions New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities Freeman J Dyson Books Reviews :

In this visionary look into the future, Freeman Dyson argues that technological changes fundamentally alter our ethical and social arrangements and that three rapidly advancing new technologies--solar energy, genetic engineering, and world-wide communication--together have the potential to create a more equal distribution of the world's wealth.

Dyson begins by rejecting the idea that scientific revolutions are primarily concept driven. He shows rather that new tools are more often the sparks that ignite scientific discovery. Such tool-driven revolutions have profound social consequences--the invention of the telescope turning the Medieval world view upside down, the widespread use of household appliances in the 1950s replacing servants, to cite just two examples. In looking ahead, Dyson suggests that solar energy, genetics, and the Internet will have similarly transformative effects, with the potential to produce a more just and equitable society. Solar power could bring electricity to even the poorest, most remote areas of third world nations, allowing everyone access to the vast stores of information on the Internet and effectively ending the cultural isolation of the poorest countries. Similarly, breakthroughs in genetics may well enable us to give our children healthier lives and grow more efficient crops, thus restoring the economic and human vitality of village cultures devalued and dislocated by the global market.

Written with passionate conviction about the ethical uses of science, The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet is both a brilliant reinterpretation of the scientific process and a challenge to use new technologies to close, rather than widen, the gap between rich and poor.

Freeman J. Dyson,The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet Tools of Scientific Revolutions (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities),New York Public Library,0195139224,J84580,Mathematical physics,Science - History,Science - Philosophy,Future Studies,Impact of computing IT on society,Impact of science technology on society,Internet,Philosophy Social Aspects,Popular science,SCIENCE / Philosophy Social Aspects,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies,Science,Science/Mathematics,Science/Philosophy Social Aspects,Social Aspects,Social Science/Future Studies,TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING / Social Aspects,Technology Industrial Arts

The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet Tools of Scientific Revolutions (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) (9780195139228) Freeman J. Dyson Books

 

Product details Series New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities Paperback 144 pages Publisher New York Public Library (October 19, 2000) Language English ISBN-10 7108014424 ISBN-13 978-0195139228 ASIN 0195139224

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