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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press; New edition edition (28 Aug 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0674539095
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674539099
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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How might we mitigate the evil consequences of technology and enhance the good? Using hypothetical and genuine examples of the advancement of science and technology (past, present and future), the author attempts to answer this question and examines the ethics involved.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very perceptive look at science and scientists, 18 Feb 2000
Freeman Dyson is quite possibly the best writer of science fact today. In this book he discusses the whole spectrum of science perceptively and tries to explain his view of technological development and the antagonism between scientific effort and progress, with fascinating looks at scientific events in history and intelligent discussion. This book is entertaining, informative and leaves any lover of science deeply fulfilled.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Evolution of airplanes to galactic migrations, imagine !, 19 Aug 1998
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Freeman Dyson is a world famous physicist but his range of interests are rather wide: this book deals with evolution of technology, evolution itself, asteroid defense (Armageddon makers have not read this book), colonization of space, time scales in cosmology etc. These stories seem to be a bit unconnected but everyone of them is nice as a separte story. This should be marketed as airport non-fiction: easy reading (and very short) but full of original ideas.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent distillation of Dyson's ideas, 26 Nov 1997
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Physicist and philosopher Freeman Dyson based the five chapters in this book on a 1995 lecture series. The resulting essays are wonderfully written, profound, and convincing.

As the title suggests, Dyson uses scenarios from science fiction and futurism as starting points and milestones in his discussions. He manages to work both _Jurassic Park_ and Stapledon's _Last and First Men_ into Chapter 3, which is about genetic engineering.

Chapter 4, Evolution, is a jarring trip through history past and present.

Aw, hell. Just buy it. You won't be sorry.

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