Where Is Science Leading Us? And What Can We Do to Steer It?
This book charts the evolution of the sciences and technologies that have shaped our modern age like nothing else in the last 60 years. As well as describing many exciting developments, it will also highlight the challenges and dangers of the technologies that have emerged from them. While science a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Publicly backed science in competition with private companies. Science as part of capitalism
- Philosophy in science is over, and why we need to reinstall it
- Promising and scary developments in future technologies, an overview
- Physics from 1960 to Today, And what we do not know yet
- Computers, nanotechnology, internet and many other technologies. What benefits and challenges physics brought us and will bring us in the future?
- Biology from 1953 to 2023: Major breakthroughs and their ethical issues. How biology became the centre of science and today also lies at the centre of ethical concerns
- Brain research since the 1990s. Significant progress in understanding human (self-)consciousness or a scientific attack on something outside of science?
- Artificial Intelligence from its origins via today to the future. Significant progress in understanding, replicating, and changing us humans or solely technological advances contained to optimising certain processes?
- The path towardsmodern mathematics. More and more abstraction as well as more and more concrete applications
- Astronomical research. The oldest science in history with the newest results of all sciences
- The future of sciences/technologies? From utopian optimism to dystopian pessimism (and possibly back)
- The myth of the optimally functional invisible hand. Why and how research projects and future technologies should be discussed, respectively governed by the public domain?
- Science, Technology and Spirituality. What science can do for society, how society has to shape technology - and how spirituality can set a frame for this shaping process?