书目名称 | Nineteen Eighty-Four: Science Between Utopia and Dystopia | 编辑 | Everett Mendelsohn,Helga Nowotny | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Just fifty years ago Julian Huxley, the biologist grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, published a book which easily could be seen to represent the prevail ing outlook among young scientists of the day: If I were a Dictator (1934). The outlook is optimistic, the tone playfully rational, the intent clear - allow science a free hand and through rational planning it could bring order out of the surrounding social chaos. He complained, however: At the moment, science is for most part either an intellectual luxury or the paid servant of capitalist industry or the nationalist state. When it and its results cannot be fitted into the existing framework, it and they are ignored; and furthermore the structure of scientific research is grossly lopsided, with over-emphasis on some kinds of science and partial or entire neglect of others. (pp. 83-84) All this the scientist dictator would set right. A new era of scientific human ism would provide alternative visions to the traditional religions with their Gods and the civic religions such as Nazism and fascism. Science in Huxley‘s version carries in it the twin impulses of the utopian imagination - Power and Order. Of course, it was exactly this v | 出版日期 | Book 1984 | 关键词 | Evolution; Messiah; artificial intelligence; dystopia; socialism; utopia | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6340-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-277-1721-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-6340-5Series ISSN 0167-2320 Series E-ISSN 2215-1796 | issn_series | 0167-2320 | copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company 1984 |
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