The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind - Couverture rigide

Laughlin, Robert B.

 
9780465005079: The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind
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ISBN 10 : 0465005071 ISBN 13 : 9780465005079
Editeur : Basic Books, 2008

Synopsis

We all agree that the free flow of ideas is essential to creativity. And we like to believe that in our modern, technological world, information is more freely available and flows faster than ever before. But according to Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin, acquiring information is becoming a danger or even a crime. Increasingly, the really valuable information is private property or a state secret, with the result that it is now easy for a flash of insight, entirely innocently, to infringe a patent or threaten national security. The public pays little attention because this vital information is “technical”—but, Laughlin argues, information is often labeled technical so it can be sequestered, not sequestered because it's technical. The increasing restrictions on information in such fields as cryptography, biotechnology, and computer software design are creating a new Dark Age: a time characterized not by light and truth but by disinformation and ignorance. Thus we find ourselves dealing more and more with the Crime of Reason, the antisocial and sometimes outright illegal nature of certain intellectual activities.

The Crime of Reason is a reader-friendly jeremiad, On Bullshit for the Slashdot and Creative Commons crowd: a short, fiercely argued essay on a problem of increasing concern to people at the frontiers of new ideas.

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À propos de l?auteur

Robert B. Laughlin is the Robert M. and Anne Bass Professor of Physics at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1985. In 1998 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the fractional quantum Hall effect. The author of A Different Universe, he lives in Stanford, California.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465005071
ISBN 13 
9780465005079
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0465020283 ISBN 13 :  9780465020287
Editeur : Basic Books, 2010
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