Living with the Genie: essays on technology and the quest for human mastery
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Introduction 1
1. Literary Devices 5
—Richard Powers
2. The Origin of the Genie 23
—Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth
3. Promise and Peril 35
—Ray Kurzweil
4. Small Is Powerful 63
—Daniel Sarewitz and Edward Woodhouse
5. Your Breath Is Your Worst Enemy 85
—D. Michelle Addington
6. Changing Conceptions 105
—Lori B. Andrews
7. Technology and Death 129
—Richard Rhodes
8. Confined to Your Legs 139
—Gregor Wolbring
9. Progress and Violence 157
—Shiv Visvanathan
10. Science and Happiness 181
—Daniel Sarewitz
11. What Kinds of Science Should Be Done? 201
—Philip Kitcher
12. The Humpty Dumpty Problem 225
—Mitchell Kapor
vii
13. Who Owns Your Dinner? 241
—Carl-Gustaf Thornstrom
viii
14. Blowback in Genetic Engineering 261
Contents .
—Mark Schapiro
15. Only Connect 273
—Christina Desser
16. The World Is Too Much with Me 287
—Alan Lightman
Acknowledgments 305
Notes 307
About the Authors 331
Index 337
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