
Where Is Science Leading Us?
And What Can We Do to Steer It?
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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 and technology have brought about enormous and often astonishing improvements in our quality of life, they have often also brought with them considerable risks, including the risk of human extinction. We place particular emphasis on the aspects that directly impact us as human beings: Artificial Intelligence (AI), enhancements of our brains/minds through innovative neuro-technologies, and the integration of nanotechnology into our bodies for early disease detection and elimination. What philosophical implications arise from these transformations? Authored by two theoretical physicists who are also experts in economics and capital markets - a rather rare combination - the book will explainthe developments of modern science and the resulting technologies. It also examines the current state of play and emerging developments in a manner accessible to non-scientists. Based on their own experience and the analysis, the authors also propose ways in which science can progress more harmoniously in future.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Takeover of Scientific Leadership
- 3. Publicly Backed Science in Competition with Private Companies
- 4. Philosophy in Science Is Over
- 5. Promising and Scary Developments in Future Technologies
- 6. Physics from 1960 to Today
- 7. Computers, Nanotechnology, Internet and Many Other Technologies
- 8. Biology from 1953 to 2023: Major Breakthroughs and Their Ethical Issues
- 9. Brain Research Since the 1990s
- 10. Artificial Intelligence from Its Origins Via Today to the Future
- 11. The Path Towards Modern Mathematics
- 12. Astronomical Research
- 13. The Future of Sciences/Technologies?
- 14. The Myth of the Optimally Functional Invisible Hand
- 15. Science, Technology and Spirituality
- Back Matter