Living with the Genie
Subtitle
Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery
Edited by Daniel Sarewitz, Christina Dresser and Alan Lightman
Science and technology continually transform our experience and society in ways that often seem to be beyond our control. Today, different areas of research and innovation are advancing synergistically, multiplying the rate and magnitude of technological and societal change, with consequences that no one can predict. This book explores the origins, nature and meaning of such change and our capacity to govern it. Leading writers and thinkers come together to confront this question from many perspectives.
Bio
Daniel Sarewitz is professor of science and society at Arizona State University, where he is co-director of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, which he helped to found in 1999.
Praise for this book
...with its balance, it is a welcome alternative to extremes such as the technophobia of McKibben's 'Enough' and the technophilia of Lee Silver's 'Remaking Eden.'
Science
"A group of remarkably penetrating, frank, and expert scientists, techno-wizards, activists, and writers raise provocative questions about what is gained and what is lost in a world enthralled by technology in this wonderfully soulful forum on life in the 'Wired World.'"
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