New at CSPO

Living With the Genie:
Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery

CSPO brought together eighteen leading writers and thinkers to explore the question of what it means to be human in an age when science and technology are continually and radically transforming society.

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Review in Science Magazine: “SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Promises and Perils of Technology’s Future” - A review by Michael A. Goldman
 

Edited by Alan Lightman, Daniel Sarewitz, and Christina Desser, Living with the Genie includes essays by: Richard Powers, novelist and MacArthur Fellow; Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning historian; Lori B. Andrews, author of Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology; Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation; and Ray Kurzweil author of The Age of Spiritual Machines, and winner of the National Medal of Technology.