TY - GEN AU - Dyson, Freeman J. TI - Sun, the genome and the internet: tools of scientific revolutions SN - 9780195139228 U1 - 303.483 PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Social Science KW - Social Processes KW - Science-Philosophy KW - Mathematical Physics KW - Science-Moral- Ethical Aspects KW - Technological Innovations-Social Aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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. 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 ER -