LEADER 04966nam 22006375 450 001 9910799202703321 005 20251009100518.0 010 $a9783031471384$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031471377 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-47138-4 035 $a(CKB)29526962500041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31071233 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31071233 035 $a(OCoLC)1416877414$z(OCoLC)1416757814 035 $a(OCoLC)1417758962 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-47138-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929526962500041 100 $a20240102d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhere Is Science Leading Us? $eAnd What Can We Do to Steer It? /$fby Lars Jaeger, Michel Dacorogna 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (341 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: 9783031471377 (OCoLC)1398569686 327 $aPublicly 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?. 330 $aThis book charts the evolution of the sciences and technologies that have shaped our modern age like nothing else in the last 60 years. As well as describing many exciting developments, it will also highlight the challenges and dangers of the technologies that have emerged from them. While science and technology have brought about enormous and often astonishing improvements in our quality of life, they have often also brought with them considerable risks, including the risk of human extinction. We place particular emphasis on the aspects that directly impact us as human beings: Artificial Intelligence (AI), enhancements of our brains/minds through innovative neuro-technologies, and the integration of nanotechnology into our bodies for early disease detection and elimination. What philosophical implications arise from these transformations? Authored by two theoretical physicists who are also experts in economics and capital markets - a rather rare combination - the book will explain the developments of modern science and the resulting technologies. It also examines the current state of play and emerging developments in a manner accessible to non-scientists. Based on their own experience and the analysis, the authors also propose ways in which science can progress more harmoniously in future. 606 $aTechnology$xSociological aspects 606 $aArtificial intelligence 606 $aNeurosciences 606 $aTechnology$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aScience, Technology and Society 606 $aArtificial Intelligence 606 $aNeuroscience 606 $aEthics of Technology 615 0$aTechnology$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aArtificial intelligence. 615 0$aNeurosciences. 615 0$aTechnology$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 14$aScience, Technology and Society. 615 24$aArtificial Intelligence. 615 24$aNeuroscience. 615 24$aEthics of Technology. 676 $a501 700 $aJaeger$b Lars$0835567 701 $aDacorogna$b Michel M$0464715 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910799202703321 996 $aWhere Is Science Leading Us$93872857 997 $aUNINA