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One fashionable school of thought holds that scientific revolutions are spurred primarily by shifts in the basic concepts that science understands the world with, and that those shifts are largely the outcome of struggles in the social and political realms. Freeman Dyson, however, is having none of it. For him, scientific breakthroughs owe just as much to the introduction of new technologies–the telescope in early modern Europe, for instance; the computer m (more…)
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August 25th, 2009 @6:02 pm
4.0 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting little book for anyone interested in the future of scientific investigations. It is even better than other books by Freeman Dyson because, this time, the author…
August 25th, 2009 @7:01 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent essay collxn by an outstanding scientist-write
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Rating: “A/A+” — another excellent essay collection by an
outstanding scientist-writer.
August 26th, 2009 @2:44 am
3.0 out of 5 stars
Accessible, Thought-Provoking
The title is misleading – the essay that addresses “the Sun, the Genome and the Interent” is only a small part of this short book.
August 26th, 2009 @8:10 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just the tonic
Dyson’s future is a utopia based on advanced technology, the benefits of which are equitably distributed to all.
August 26th, 2009 @9:53 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
A model of the future by a contemporary visionary
This superb book by Freeman Dyson was largely based on the ‘Three Faces of Science’ lectures he gave at the New York Public Library in 1997.
August 26th, 2009 @2:05 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Optimistic Dyson and his book.
This small book contains of such an inspirational reading. So long many scientists have predicted the future of this world in a sort of deterioration. Freeman J.
August 26th, 2009 @7:58 pm
4.0 out of 5 stars
Insightful!
Think of this book as an engaging evening with a rather authoritarian dreamer who happens to be a distinguished scientist.
August 27th, 2009 @1:49 am
4.0 out of 5 stars
Guardedly Optimistic
Freeman Dyson is concerned with social equity. And he believes that the elevation of the lowly, and the enhancement of everyone else, lies with the intelligent deployment certain…
August 27th, 2009 @5:12 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
An Intelligent Prediction of the 21st Century
In this book Freeman Dyson contends that the driving force of scientific revolutions is more often new tools rather than new concepts.
August 27th, 2009 @12:16 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another Dyson gem!
This is yet another wonderful book written by the physicist / mathematician Freeman J. Dyson of Princeton university.
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