The Tree of Knowledge The Bright and the Dark Sides of Science /

• Main Author: Ronchi, Claudio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Popular works.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Popular Science, general.; History 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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 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.