Is science out of control?
Dr. David Levy musing about whether scientists should have a say in how their research gets used:
What do you think?
- Should scientists have a say in how their research gets used in society and the world at large?
- Will the rapid pace of technological advance bring about cataclysmic events for the human race?
- Finally, are robots going to annihilate us? ;)
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Scientists are some kind of
By AleksiScientists are some kind of Art Makers for me, hence science "control" is something like an inquisition-but this is my subjective mind
Science will proceed even under tight control I think
What about your second question: technological advances CAN bring us cataclysmic consequences but we must direct our discoveries at "healing wounds" that we introduced in nature
And what about robots:) I think these guys have to learn a lot yet, and even after they become PhD, they will be the creature of wiser human I think.
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