Living with the Genie : essays on technology and the quest for human mastery / edited by Alan Lightman, Daniel Sarewitz, Christina Desser. - Washington : Island Press, c2003. - viii, 347 p. ; 24 cm.

Literary devices / origin of the genie / Promise and peril / Small is powerful / Your breath is your worst enemy / Changing conceptions / Technology and death / Confined to your legs / Progress and violence / Science and happiness / What kinds of science should be done? / Humpty Dumpty problem / Who owns your dinner? / Blowback in genetic engineering / Only connect / world is too much with me / Richard Powers -- Kathy Schick, Nicholas Toth -- Ray Kurzweil -- Daniel Sarewitz, Edward Woodhouse -- D. Michelle Addington -- Lori B. Andrews -- Richard Rhodes -- Gregor Wolbring -- Shiv Visvanathan -- Daniel Sarewitz -- Philip Kitcher -- Mitchell Kapor -- Carl-Gustaf Thornstrm���? -- Mark Schapiro -- Christina Desser -- Alan Lightman. The The The

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Technology--Social aspects.
Technological innovations--Social aspects.

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