Where Is Science Leading Us? And What Can We Do to Steer It? /
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| Shrnutí: | X, 340 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color. text |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2023.
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| Vydání: | 1st ed. 2023. |
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| On-line přístup: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47138-4 |
| Médium: | Elektronický zdroj Kniha |
Obsah:
- Publicly backed science in competition with private companies. Science as part of capitalism
- Philosophy in science is over, and why we need to reinstall it
- Promising and scary developments in future technologies, an overview
- Physics from 1960 to Today, And what we do not know yet
- Computers, nanotechnology, internet and many other technologies. What benefits and challenges physics brought us and will bring us in the future?
- Biology from 1953 to 2023: Major breakthroughs and their ethical issues. How biology became the centre of science and today also lies at the centre of ethical concerns
- Brain research since the 1990s. Significant progress in understanding human (self-)consciousness or a scientific attack on something outside of science?
- Artificial Intelligence from its origins via today to the future. Significant progress in understanding, replicating, and changing us humans or solely technological advances contained to optimising certain processes?
- The path towardsmodern mathematics. More and more abstraction as well as more and more concrete applications
- Astronomical research. The oldest science in history with the newest results of all sciences
- The future of sciences/technologies? From utopian optimism to dystopian pessimism (and possibly back)
- The myth of the optimally functional invisible hand. Why and how research projects and future technologies should be discussed, respectively governed by the public domain?
- Science, Technology and Spirituality. What science can do for society, how society has to shape technology - and how spirituality can set a frame for this shaping process?.