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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…

Infinite in All Directions is a popularized science at its best. In Dyson's view, science and religion are two windows through which we can look out at the world around us. The book is a revised version of a series of the Gifford Lectures under the…

This collection of essays and articles range across the author's many interests including theoretical physics, the origins of life, technological development, the bomb and nuclear politics.

Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Think of the human race multiplying 500-million fold, or evolving new, distinct species. Consider the technology of space colonization,…

Door een brug te slaan tussen de moderne westerse fysica en de oosterse mystiek heeft Capra niet alleen een uitermate boeiend en helder overzicht van beide en een inzicht in hun overeenkomsten gegeven.  Vooral ook heeft hij ons bewust gemaakt van het…

Bestaat de werkelijkheid ook terwijl wij niet kijken? Terwijl er niemand is die kijkt? Als dat eens niet zo was, hoe zouden we daar ooit achter kunnen komen? Nog niet zolang geleden waren dit filosofische speculaties, maar nu begint het erop te…

Science, Faith and the search for order. Concentrating on the Centre for the Study of Complex Systems in Los Alamos and the religious beliefs of surrounding communities, Journalist George Johnson explores the new science of complexity, which suggests…

George Poinar began collecting amber specimens over thirty years ago, but it was only recently that he, Roberta Poinar, and the rest of his research team astounded the scientific community with the news that they had obtained ”live” DNA strands from…

In The World in 2020, acclaimed commentator and best-selling author Hamish McRae paints a vivid competitive landscape in which culture and values will be the new sources of advantage for the industrialized nations. In the year 2020, all having…

Through a series of intriguing case studies including the study of relativity, cold fusion, the "memory" in worms, and the sex life of lizards, this book debunks the view that scientific knowledge is a straightforward outcome of competent…