TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ronchi,Claudio
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Tree of Knowledge: The Bright and the Dark Sides of Science 
SN  - 9783319014845
AV  - QC6.9 
U1  - 530.01 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - physics
KW  - Science
KW  - History
KW  - mathematics
KW  - Physics
KW  - History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
KW  - Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology
KW  - history of science
N1  - Introduction -- Time of Growth -- Birth an Floruit of Science in the Occident -- Scientific Research as a Global Enterprise -- The Crisis of Growth -- Orthodoxy vs. Heresy -- The Dissemination of Knowledge -- Beyond Mankind -- Artificial Intelligence and Post-Humanity -- Beginning and End -- Epilogue
N2  - Whether considered a divine gift or a Promethean conquest, science has indisputably and indelibly marked the course of human history. A product of the intellectual elite, but always nourished by the many fruits of its applications, science appears today to be a perfect system, whose laws and discoveries guide all human activities. Yet the foundations of its authority remain an open question, entailing disquieting aspects that are also to be identified in modern science. Furthermore it is seen to be exerting an increasing power over mankind. Readers are invited to follow an itinerary through the history of science, a voyage which, in the end, enables them to catch a glimpse of two divergent futures: One in which science accelerates the downfall of Homo sapiens, and another in which it helps our species to engage in a new and positive adventure, whose outcome nobody can know
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01484-5
ER  -