Publication

1999 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

31,000 words, Guess

Page Count

124 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing77302
  • Goodreads1769097

Classifications

  • DDC303.48/3
  • LCCQC20 .D98 1999

Alternate Titles

  • Sun, the genome, and the Internet

Description

"In this visionary look into the future, Freeman Dyson argues that technological changes fundamentally alter our ethical and social arrangements and that three rapidly advancing new technologies - solar energy, genetic engineering, and worldwide communication - together have the potential to create a more equal distribution of the world's wealth."--BOOK JACKET. "Written with passionate conviction about the ethical uses of science, The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet is both a brilliant reinterpretation of the scientific process and a challenge to use new technologies to close, rather than widen, the gap between rich and poor."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

John Randall was in 1939 a thirty-four-year-old English physicist who had made an undistinguished career in solid-state physics.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The sun, the genome & the Internet: tools of scientific revolutionsOxford University Press1999-01-01

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