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How to think about science.

Title: How to think about science. Part 10.
Publication: [Toronto] : [CBC Radio One], [2008]

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1 audio disc (54 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

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Technological science exerts a pervasive influence on contemporary life. It determines much of what we do, and almost all of how we do it. Yet science and technology lie almost completely outside the realm of political decision. No electorate ever voted to split atoms or splice genes; no legislature ever authorized the iPod or the internet. Our civilization, consequently, is caught in a profound paradox: we glorify freedom and choice, but submit to the transformation of our culture by technoscience as a virtual fate. In this episode we explore the relations between politics and scientific knowledge. David Cayley talks to Brian Wynne of the University of Lancaster in the north of England. He's the associate director of an institute that studies the social and economic aspects of genetic technologies, and one of Britain's best-known writers and researchers on the interplay of science and society.

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Ideas (Radio program)

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How to think about science. Episode 10

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Originally broadcast on CBC Radio One's program, Ideas on January 30, 2008.
Compact disc.

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ocn268677434
268677434
SCSB-5403475

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