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Review of Michio Kaku’s, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
Instititute for Ethics and Emerging TechnologiesJohn G. Messerly
reasonandmeaning.com
http://reasonandmeaning.com/2014/12/14/kakus-visions/
December 15, 2014
Summary of Michio Kaku’s Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
(1997) “There are three great themes in science in the 20th
century—the atom, the computer, and the gene.” – Harold Varmus, NIH
Director. Three centuries ago Newton said that he was a boy, playing on
the seashore while a “great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before
me.” Life in Newton’s time was, as Hobbes said, “nasty, brutish, and
short.” But Newton unleashed a revolution that he could never have
imagined. Within a few generations “the basic laws of matter, life, and
computation were … solved.” [3-4]
Full article
(1997) “There are three great themes in science in the 20th
century—the atom, the computer, and the gene.” – Harold Varmus, NIH
Director. Three centuries ago Newton said that he was a boy, playing on
the seashore while a “great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before
me.” Life in Newton’s time was, as Hobbes said, “nasty, brutish, and
short.” But Newton unleashed a revolution that he could never have
imagined. Within a few generations “the basic laws of matter, life, and
computation were … solved.” [3-4]Full article
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