THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE ON SOCIETY

Many of the revolutionary effects of science and technology are obvious enough. Bertrand Russell saw in the 1950s that there are als o many negative aspects of scientific innovation. Insightful and controversial in equal measure, Russell argues that science offers the world greater well-being than it has ever known, on the condition that prosperity is dispersed/ power is diffused by means of a single, world government/ birth rates do not become too high/ and war is abolished. Russell acknowledges that is a tall order, but r emains ess...[Read more]