Living with the Genie : essays on technology and the quest for human mastery / edited by Alan Lightman, Daniel Sarewitz, Christina Desser.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Washington : Island Press, c2003.Description: viii, 347 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1559634197 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1559635746 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • T14.5 .L59 2003
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Contents:
Literary devices / Richard Powers -- The origin of the genie / Kathy Schick, Nicholas Toth -- Promise and peril / Ray Kurzweil -- Small is powerful / Daniel Sarewitz, Edward Woodhouse -- Your breath is your worst enemy / D. Michelle Addington -- Changing conceptions / Lori B. Andrews -- Technology and death / Richard Rhodes -- Confined to your legs / Gregor Wolbring -- Progress and violence / Shiv Visvanathan -- Science and happiness / Daniel Sarewitz -- What kinds of science should be done? / Philip Kitcher -- The Humpty Dumpty problem / Mitchell Kapor -- Who owns your dinner? / Carl-Gustaf Thornstrm���? -- Blowback in genetic engineering / Mark Schapiro -- Only connect / Christina Desser -- The world is too much with me / Alan Lightman.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection T 14.5 .L59 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98629582

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

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