Strength to Be Human
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American futurist writer Mark Antony Rossi fights for the independence of humanity by tackling the tyranny of the extreme ends of Science and Religion. The core thesis for this book is the essay "Strength to Be Human in This Day of Machines" is presented in this international edition in seven languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, German, French and Japanese.
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Strength to Be Human - Mark Antony Rossi
STRENGTH TO
BE HUMAN
Mark Antony Rossi
Copyright © 2018
All Rights Reserved.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SCIENCE AS SAVIOR IN THE 21ST CENTURY
DIODE AS DEITY
WHAT WE LEARNED
THE ADVENT OF BIOETHICS
THE DEATH OF ETHICS IN THE BRAVE NEW WORD
DIGITAL DEMONS AND THE NEW BIG BROTHER
PRIMAL MOVER
THE FATAL FANTASY OF PERFECTION
THE ROAD TO DIGITAL DICTATORSHIP
WORLD PEACE THROUGH IMTIMACY
INTERVIEW: BIOTECH AND A BETTER TOMORROW
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SCIENCE AS SAVIOR IN
THE 21ST CENTURY
I often wonder about the backgrounds of scientists urging NASA to design new space missions to Mars and other distant galactic destinations. I think about how they critique Congress and the American public on spending levels for super-expensive projects that have so little bearing on our daily lives.
Hard-working taxpayers are deemed insignificant, unable to digest grand scientific schemes doing more to satisfy the proclivities thrust upon tenure and academic isolation than making relevant complex experiments and costly expenditures. The reasons behind consistent (and sometimes willful) communication breakdown revolves around the repeated charges I have made throughout my examination of science whenever it obits the seductive body of money and machine. The crippling conditions of vanity, arrogance, shortsightedness, and denial of ethical consideration do much damage to the reputation of modern science as a potential savior.
I question the backgrounds and motives of modern-day scientific dreamers precisely because I see horrible tragedies (by design and by accident) when people focus so intensely on the heavens until the ground is lost. The ground is Earth; Earth is Humanity. It is humanity that Science must serve and not the reverse. Yet any attempt at such a debate with many of today’s scientists and you are bound to face a barrage of jargon meant to call up the ghost of Orwell. While some lab coat lackey in the corner is keeping score and insuring credit and fame is jotted down on the historical dotted line.
I wonder about the backgrounds of these scientists since they seem to lose a sense of social impact as if their experiments and galactic discoveries will always make a difference on Earth. Whether a black hole sucks all energy in its vicinity or simply winks at our existence it holds little clue to how we can survive long enough on Earth to one day travel to distant stars and planets. I wonder if these scientists, regardless of field of study, might hail from some idyllic paradise I am not allowed to enter. How is it possible for them to detach the social dilemmas of today from the work they claim will benefit us tomorrow? We may not be here tomorrow. You know the story well, that’s someone else’s problem,
not in my backyard,
leave it for preachers and politicians to figure out.
Sadly, few of these figures historically rate well in moral courage or social awareness department either.
Social change continues to arrive on the bloody backs of a handful of individuals making the ultimate sacrifice. Science, the preeminent philosophy bound to