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Imagined Worlds (Paperback, Revised)
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Imagined Worlds (Paperback, Revised)
Series: The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures
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Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and
fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Think of the human
race multiplying 500-million fold, or evolving new, distinct
species. Consider the technology of space colonization,
computer-assisted reproduction, the "Martian potato." One hundred
years after H. G. Wells visited the future in The Time Machine,
Freeman Dyson marshals his uncommon gifts as a scientist and
storyteller to take us once more to that ever-closer, ever-receding
time to come. Since Disturbing the Universe, the book that first
brought him international renown, Freeman Dyson has been helping us
see ourselves and our world from a scientist's point of view. In
Imagined Worlds he brings this perspective to a speculative future
to show us where science and technology, real and imagined, may be
taking us. The stories he tells-about "Napoleonic" versus
"Tolstoyan" styles of doing science; the coming era of
radioneurology and radiotelepathy; the works of writers from Aldous
Huxley to Michael Crichton to William Blake; Samuel Gompers and the
American labor movement-come from science, science fiction, and
history. Sharing in the joy and gloom of these sources, Dyson seeks
out the lessons we must learn from all three if we are to
understand our future and guide it in hopeful directions. Whether
looking at the Gaia theory or the future of nuclear weapons,
science fiction or the dangers of "science worship," seagoing
kayaks or the Pluto Express, Dyson is concerned with ethics, with
how we might mitigate the evil consequences of technology and
enhance the good. At the heart of it all is the belief once
expressed by the biologist J. B. S. Haldane, that progress in
science will bring enormous confusion and misery to humankind
unless it is accompanied by progress in ethics.
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