Living with the Genie : essays on technology and the quest for human mastery / edited by Alan Lightman, Daniel Sarewitz, Christina Desser.

Washington, DC : Island Press, [2003], ©2003.

viii, 347 pages ; 24 cm

Literary devices / Richard Powers -- The origin of the genie / Kathy Schick, Nicholas Toth -- Promise and peril / Ray Kurzweil -- Small is powerful / Daniel Sarewitz, Edward Woodhouse -- Your breath is your worst enemy / D. Michelle Addington -- Changing conceptions / Lori B. Andrews -- Technology and death / Richard Rhodes -- Confined to your legs / Gregor Wolbring -- Progress and violence / Shiv Visvanathan -- Science and happiness / Daniel Sarewitz -- What kinds of science should be done? / Philip Kitcher -- The Humpty Dumpty problem / Mitchell Kapor -- Who owns your dinner? / Carl-Gustaf Thornström -- Blowback in genetic engineering / Mark Schapiro -- Only connect / Christina Desser -- The world is too much with me / Alan Lightman.