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 							Publisher: Island Press; New edition edition (September 15, 2004)
  Language: English
  ISBN-10:
155963574
  
  
  
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  ISBN-13: 978-1559635745
  
  
  
  Book Description
  Publication Date: September 15, 2004 | ISBN-10: 1559635746 |
ISBN-13: 978-1559635745 | Edition: New edition
  "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.' " -BOOKLIST
  
 
Biotechnology, Cloning, Robotics, Nanotechnology...
  
  At a time when scientific and technological
breakthroughs keep our eyes focused on the latest software upgrades or the newest cell-phone wizardry, a group of
today's most innovative thinkers are looking beyond the horizon to explore both the promise and the peril of our
technological future.
  
  Human ingenuity has granted us a world of unprecedented personal power -- enabling
us to communicate instantaneously with anyone anywhere on the globe, to transport ourselves in both real and virtual
worlds to distant places with ease, to fill our bellies with engineered commodities once available to only a privileged
elite.
  
  Through our technologies, we have sought to free ourselves from the shackles of nature and become
its master. Yet 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.
  
 
Living with the Genie explores the origins, nature, and meaning of such change, and our capacity to govern it. As the
power of technology continues to accelerate, who, this book asks, will be the master of whom?
  
  In Living
with the Genie, leading writers and thinkers come together to confront this question from many perspectives, including:
Richard Powers's whimsical investigation of the limits of artificial intelligence; Philip Kitcher's confrontation of the
moral implications of science; Richard Rhodes's exploration of the role of technology in reducing violence; Shiv
Visvanathan's analysis of technology's genocidal potential; Lori Andrews's insights into the quest for human genetic
enhancement; Alan Lightman's reflections on how technology changes the experience of our humanness.
  
  These
and ten other provocative essays open the door to a new dialogue on how, in the quest for human mastery, technology may
be changing what it means to be human, in ways we scarcely comprehend.
  
  
  
  From Booklist
  The premise for this stellar essay collection is the observation that although technology is clearly a double-edged
sword, an exponentially increasing force rich in promise and rife with peril, we rarely question the necessity or
consider the consequences of technological innovations. A group of remarkably penetrating, frank, and expert scientists,
technowizards, 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." Novelist Richard Powers offers
a brilliant, witty, and unnerving journey into AI. Multitalented Ray Kurzweil analyzes the implications of rapidly
evolving computational and miniaturization technologies in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics. Richard Rhodes
ponders the link between technology and violence. Others, including Christina Dresser, warn against reducing the human
endeavor to mere information and intellect, thus devaluing sensory experience, feelings, memory, and dreams. Coeditor
Lightman, a physicist and a novelist, reminds us of our deep need for silence, solitude, and stillness. There is much to
contemplate here, which means that the book has accomplished its mission to kindle critical thinking about our
relationship with our technologies, each other, and the natural world. Donna Seaman
  Copyright © American
Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
  Review
  "...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.'"
 
(Booklist) 						

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