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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 Worldwide Communication - Together Have The Potential To Create A More Equal Distribution Of The World's Wealth. 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.--jacket. Scientific Revolutions -- Technology And Social Justice -- The High Road. Freeman J. Dyson. Based On A Series Of Lectures. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [119]-124).
- Author
- Dyson, Freeman J.
- Publisher
- New York: New York Public Library: Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780195129427
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Science
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