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<p>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.<br> 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 poores

Who reads The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)?

Author

Freeman J. Dyson

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9787108014429

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Science, Technology

Rating

3.7 / 5 (114 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13