Wednesday 26 September 2018

TALE OF A SCIENTIFIC CONVERT - REVIEW OF MARK LYNAS'S "SEEDS OF SCIENCE"

This is the age of big questions: Will AI dominate the world? Will we find a suitable alternative to fossil fuels? Will Big Data make us lose our privacy? And will Genetic Engineering (GE) and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) give rise to Frankenstein-like chimeras?

These questions do not have simple answers. They require a modicum of scientific learning even to appreciate all the implications. A person who has been fully educated in the arts and humanities may find himself or herself flip-flopping on the issues.