The tree of knowledge : the bright and the dark sides of science /

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 discove...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ronchi, C. (Claudio) (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer, 2014.
Subjects:	Science > History. Physics. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology. History of Science. SCIENCE / History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Time of Growth
Birth an Floruit of Science in the Occident
Scientific Research as a Global Enterprise
The Crisis of Growth
Orthodoxy versus Heresy
The Dissemination of Knowledge
Beyond Mankind
Artificial Intelligence and Post-Humanity
Beginning and the End
Epilogue.