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virus: The New Humanists: Science at the Edge by John Brockman
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Netsurf Digest ( http://www.netsurf.com ) review:
"This book grew out of Brockman's essay "New Humanists", which appeared on his science-culture Web site The Edge in early 2002. In that essay, Brockman writes that modern intellectuals have become willfully ignorant of the issues of science and technology as they mire themselves instead in self-referential commentary and cultural pessimism. Humanism has been subsumed by the liberal arts, which as often as not reject humanism's historical tenet - man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method.
The essay garnered a great deal of comment and in response Brockman has assembled a who's who of eminent scientists and asked them to discuss their own unique contributions to the development of modern thought. It's not exactly a humbling topic, but considering the vast and wrenching changes in our world views that science has wrought over the last 100 years, who better to comment than the very scientists who are bringing them about? In addition to the scientists - who write articles like "Software Is a Cultural Solvent", "Making Minds", and "A Golden Age of Cosmology" - Brockman also includes an equally stellar selection of responses to his original essay. An excellent and challenging think piece on a multitude of levels."
Available from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0760745293/churchofvirusA/
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