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200 14$aThe Tree of Knowledge $eThe Bright and the Dark Sides of Science /$fby Claudio Ronchi
205   $a1st ed. 2014.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2014.
215   $a1 online resource (297 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a3-319-01483-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction -- 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.
330   $aWhether 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.
606   $aPhysics
606   $aPopular works
606   $aHistory
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606   $aPopular Science, general$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q00007
606   $aHistory of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/731000
615  0$aPhysics.
615  0$aPopular works.
615  0$aHistory.
615 14$aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.
615 24$aPopular Science, general.
615 24$aHistory of Science.
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